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29/12/2015 (Reuters) - Monday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1300 GMT.

29/12/2015 (The Nation) - Nigeria will continue to under achieve her potentials in palm oil production both as a crop for export and for local use unless issues of lack of incentives to invest in agriculture, dysfunctional land tenure system, high transaction cost, and high risks arising from poor governance are addressed, a study on palm oil released this week by the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA), has shown.

29/12/2015 (Reuters) - India's farmers have pushed back planting of crops such as wheat and rapeseed, the main winter oilseed, raising fears of lower output and higher vegetable oil imports by the world's biggest buyer of the cooking ingredient.

29/12/2015 (Borneo Post) - Malaysia’s Sabah Forestry Department has agreed to run a trial of the newly-released High Carbon Stock (HCS+) methodology, which helps assess carbon stock in palm oil plantations

28/12/2015 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

28/12/2015 (Business in Cameroon) - The Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies (Cameroonian Palm Company), a company owned by the Socfin group and listed on the Douala Stock exchange (DSX), the Cameroonian equities market, is considering investing FCfa 38.2 billion for the expansion of its farms in the Littoral region.

28/12/2015 (The Star) - Issues affecting the Malaysian equities market this year will continue into 2016 but the prospects look better especially with political uncertainties subsiding, according to analysts.

28/12/2015 (Reuters) - Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market rose further on Tuesday on expectations of sharply lower output in the southern part of Malaysia, which lifted palm oil futures. "Malaysian palm oil futures were up again on concerns over lower output, some 20 percent down in the first 20 days of December in the state of Johor. On the other side, exports in that same period were down by around 25 percent," a broker said.

28/12/2015 (Hindu Business Line) - Both gainers and losers, be it pulses or spices, saw wild price swings

28/12/2015 (Borneo Post) - Researchers at MIDF Amanah Investment Bank Bhd (MIDF Research) expect crude palm oil prices (CPO) to surge above RM2,500 per metric tonne (MT) in the first quarter of 2016 as inventory drops below 2.5 million MT.

28/12/2015 (GhanaWeb) - The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) after series of interventions has declared palm oil safe for consumption but advised consumers to patronize only from sellers with accredited badges from the Authority.

23/12/2015 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Wednesday December 22.