<div id="readability-page-1"><div><p>[SINGAPORE] Palm oil producer Bumitama Agri posted a 29 per cent rise in net profit to 1.87 trillion rupiah (S$145.7 million) for the nine months ended Sep 30.</p><p>This was on the back of an 18 per cent rise in its nine-month revenue to 13.6 trillion rupiah, the company said in a business update on Thursday (Nov 13). </p><p>Bumitama’s revenue was buoyed by production recovery, which progressed as expected, and improved productivity. The output of fresh fruit bunches was up 8 per cent to 2.54 million tons.</p><p>“The respectable output performance occurred amid record-breaking rains in the Central Kalimantan estates during September,” Bumitama said, adding that the weather had hindered some deliveries.</p><p>Crude palm oil accounted for 84 per cent of its sales, while the remainder came from palm kernel. </p><p>Contributions from both rose during the 9M period, driven by increases in average selling prices from the year-ago period – by 17 per cent for crude palm oil, and 75 per cent for palm kernel.</p><p>“Improving industry prospects in the past five years have resulted in robust financial performance and paved the way for significant deleveraging,” the company said, adding that it expects Q4 to be the peak crop period of the year.</p><p>Its shares ended Thursday at S$1.48, down by S$0.02 or 1.3 per cent.</p></div></div>

布米达马农业

<p>布米达马农业报告称，截至 9 月 30 日的九个月内，净利润增长 29%，达到 1.87 万亿印尼卢比，收入增长 18%，达到 1.36 万亿印尼卢比。尽管中加里曼丹地区降雨量创纪录，该公司将增长归因于生产恢复和生产力提高。粗棕榈油销售增长 17%，棕榈仁销售增长 75%。该公司预计第四季度将是丰收期。股价收于 1.48 新加坡元，下跌 1.3%</p>

布米达马农业在中加里曼丹创纪录的降雨量下，9 个月的利润增长了 29%