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22/07/2024 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) intends to continue supplying agricultural products to the Gaza Strip within the Grain from Ukraine program, WFP Deputy Director Marianne Ward said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine. She said WFP recently sent 1,000 tonnes of flour from Ukraine to this region.

22/07/2024 (Biofuels International) - The European Union looks set to impose provisional duties on Chinese biodiesel after finding it is being sold in EU markets at unfairly low prices.

22/07/2024 (Jakarta Globe), Yogyakarta - The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry (ESDM) conducted its first trial of B40 biodiesel for railway transportation at Lempuyangan Station, Yogyakarta, on Monday. The Ministry anticipates that the use of B40 could save up to $9 billion in fuel import costs.

19/07/2024 (Biofuels International) - Malaysia is committed to supplying China with Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified palm oil and palm oil products.

19/07/2024 (New Straits Times), New Delhi - A better replanting rate of older oil palm areas can increase Malaysia's annual palm oil output by 2.5 million tonnes, Plantation and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani said.

21/07/2024 (Borneo Online), Kota Kinabalu - Deputy Minister of Plantation and Commodities, Datuk Chan Foong Hin has called on the oil palm industry players in Sabah, especially smallholders, to increase the replanting rate for aging oil palm areas to maintain the state’s palm oil productivity.

22/07/2024 (The Edge Malaysia) - The environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement is gathering steam, but how much of it is real, and how much is hot air? Across industries, transparent and accountable ESG reporting is crucial to ensure that companies are on the right track to improve their environmental and social performance, strengthen governance and earn the trust of stakeholders. However, the lack of standardisation and challenges in quantifying impact have made the evaluation of ESG performance a difficult task.

19/07/2024 (Free Malaysia Today), Petaling Jaya - Malaysia has secured the backing of India, the world’s largest palm oil importer, in combating the anti-palm oil campaign propagated by Western nations.

18/07/2024 (Free Malaysia Today), New Delhi - Malaysia’s palm oil exports to India will continue to rise in line with the growth of India’s middle-class consumer base, says plantation and commodities minister Johari Ghani.

18/07/2024 (Plant Based News) - A new study says that switching from saturated animal-derived fats like dairy butter to unsaturated oils from olives and nuts is better for your heart.

18/07/2024 (ChemAnalyst News) - Cargill, a global leader in oilseed processing, announced on 16 July 2024 that it has surpassed the 50 percent completion milestone in constructing its new canola facility at the Global Transportation Hub in West Regina, Saskatchewan. The facility, which broke ground in July 2022, is expected to open in 2025. It will have the capacity to process 1 million metric tons of canola annually, producing crude canola oil for food and biofuel markets, as well as canola meal for animal feed.

18/07/2024 (Biofuels International) - The Iowa Biodiesel Board has welcomed Iowa US Representative Ashley Hinson for leading a bipartisan letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encouraging more usage of biofuels in the country.