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18/03/2015 (Awoko) - The Paramount Chief of Jong Chief- PC Alie Badara Sheriff III and his colleague Paramount Chief of Sogbini Chiefdom have wholeheartedly embraced the Palm Oil Production Project.

18/03/2015 (AgriMoney.com) - Indonesia, the top palm oil producer and shipper, may follow main rival Malaysia and reintroduce an export tax on crude palm oil, Oil World cautioned.

18/03/2015 (Jakarta Globe) - A worker unloads palm fruits at a local palm oil factory in the Serdang Bedagai district of North Sumatra province, in this Nov. 30, 2011 file picture. (Reuters Photo/Y.T. Haryono)

18/03/2015 (GhanaWeb) - The Omanhene of Juaben Traditional Area, Nana (Dr) Otuo Siriboe II, has urged the Government and other relevant stakeholders to prioritise the plantation development and processing of Oil Palm to enhance the industrialisation of the national economy.

18/03/2015 (Jakarta Post) - The ministry’s director general for new-renewable and conservation of energy, Rida Mulyana, said there were three options currently under assessment to support producers of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME), which is widely used in biodiesel.

17/03/2015 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures slid to their lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday, after a decision by the second-largest producer to impose export taxes next month fuelled worries that price-sensitive buyers would switch to rival edible oils.

17/03/2015 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

17/03/2015 (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government has issued a number of policies to improve the countrys economic performance and continue national economic structural reform.

17/03/2015 (Reuters) - Indonesia may introduce tax breaks for crude palm oil producers to head-off a budgetary problem caused by overlapping biodiesel legislation announced in recent weeks, energy ministry officials said on Monday.

17/03/2015 (UkrAgroConsult) - Indonesia plans to increase blending of palm oil with diesel this year to cut costs of importing fossil fuel and shore up prices of the world’s most-used vegetable oil. The world’s largest palm oil producer will raise the blending rate to 15 percent this year from 10 percent and subsequently to 20 percent.

17/03/2015 (Hindu Business Line) - The country's rapeseed output could fall 12 per cent from a year ago to 5.74 million tonnes in 2014-15, the latest update from the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA), an industry body, showed on Monday.

17/03/2015 (Hindu Business Line) - Malaysian palm oil futures on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives ended lower on Monday, after the country decided to impose export taxes next month which fuelled worries that price-sensitive buyers would switch to other oils.