The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry has approved 32,000 foreign plantation workers who have completed their Covid-19 vaccination to be brought into Malaysia in stages starting mid-October.

Its minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said they are to become harvesters as most locals were not yet ready to carry out the task.

She said the effort was also part of initiatives carried out in her first 100 days on the job, which was to increase...