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01/10/2015 (Jakarta Globe) - The government is keeping export tax on crude palm oil sales at 0 percent next month as weak global demand continues to push down CPO prices, according to a statement by the Trade Ministry on Tuesday.

01/10/2015 (Hindu Business Line) - “It is a crop from which I get a salary every month,” says GN Ratnakara, an oil palm grower in Badagabail village of NR Pura taluka in Chikmagalur district.

10/01/2015 (Hindu Business Line) - Spending a few seconds, poring over the tag of any product, will make a lot of difference in the way people buy them. Not all packets of groundnut oil have the same content, according to a recent finding of Consumers Association of India (CAI).

10/01/2015 (The Star) - PALMWIZ is back for the second year and this time there are more prizes to be won.

01/10/2015 (THISDAY Live) - Presco Plc is a dominant player in the agriculture sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). By the close of trading last week, the stock was the highest priced in the sector. Given its financial performance for the half year ended June 30, 2015, and high expectations for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015, demand for the stock and Presco Plc will witness more patronage. This will invariably lead to an increase in its price at the stock market.

30/09/2015 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Wednesday September 30.

30/09/2015 (Sun.Star) - The Philippine Palm-Oil Development Council Inc. (PPDCI) lauded the Department of Energy’s (DOEs) plan to increase the biodiesel blend to 5 percent, which may be implemented next year.

30/09/2015 (Bernama) - Solidaridad West Africa and Proforest, with the support of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), is holding a one-day forum on sustainable palm oil in Africa in Accra Tuesday.

30/09/2015 (New Zealand Herald) - Fonterra executives will have their work cut out convincing farmers to reduce their use of what has been a key feed supplement over the past 10 years - palm kernel.

30/09/2015 (Reuters) - Six African nations have agreed with donors on a plan to protect the tropical forests of the Congo basin, the second biggest in the world after the Amazon's, to help ease poverty and combat climate change.

30/09/2015 (The Star) - The weaker ringgit, which has dropped to a fresh 17-year low against the US dollar, is helping to prop up the price of crude palm oil (CPO), which has risen to its highest level in more than a year.

30/09/2015 (New Straits Times) - There is a 50:50 chance for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to be concluded in the US this Thursday, says International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed.