<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>

布米達馬農業

<p>布米達馬農業報告稱，截至 9 月 30 日的九個月內，淨利潤增長 29%，達到 1.87 萬億印尼盧比，收入增長 18%，達到 1.36 萬億印尼盧比。儘管中加里曼丹地區降雨量創紀錄，該公司將增長歸因於生產恢復和生產力提高。粗棕櫚油銷售增長 17%，棕櫚仁銷售增長 75%。該公司預計第四季度將是豐收期。股價收於 1.48 新加坡元，下跌 1.3%</p>

布米達馬農業在中加里曼丹創紀錄的降雨量下，9 個月的利潤增長了 29%