Jakarta - The plantation company, PT Sampoerna Agro Tbk (SGRO), is confident that the total production of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) by the end of this year will increase by 19%.

Finance Director of PT Sampoerna Agro Tbk Heri Harjanto said that his party believes that economic conditions both domestically and in other countries were starting to show a recovery trend, in line with the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and supportive weather factors will increase FFB productivity.

"In Semester II-2021 the upward trend is still there and production is also increasing both in Indonesia and in Malaysia. Supported by two factors, FFB production can increase by 19%," he said at the Public Expose (PubEx) Live 2021 event in Jakarta on Friday (10/9).

According to Heri, the company has carried out several intensification efforts to maintain production until the end of December.

"Several components of production costs are estimated to be hig