A break below 3,322 ringgit may cause a fall into 3,208-3,260 ringgit range. On the daily chart, the contract is trying to stabilize around a rising trendline.
Brazil's Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias on Thursday confirmed the government expects to harvest bumper soybean and corn crops despite planting and harvesting delays in 2020.
A drop in imports, after hitting multi-year highs in December, will be the main deterrent for stockpiles to rise, said Sathia Varqa, co-founder of Singapore-based Palm Oil Analytics.
The US Department of Agriculture's Buenos Aires office last week projected the corn crop at 47 million tonnes, a half million below the agency's official estimate, due to drought damage.
The bulk of Mexico's corn imports come from the United States, its top trade partner. In the year through November, Mexico had imported 13 million tonnes from the United States.
The benchmark palm oil contract for April delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange slid 102 ringgit, or 3%, to 3,289 ringgit a tonne during early trade.
Despite its strength, the current rise may end in a wide range of 3,524-3,716 ringgit, as the fall from 3,888 ringgit adoped a five-wave mode, which suggests the second round of drop.