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18/08/2014 (Ghana Web) - The Board of Export Trade, Agricultural and Industrial Development Fund (EDAIF), in June and July this year, approved GH¢ 57.1 million in grants and credit to 28 cooperatives, companies and public institutions.

18/08/2014 (Jakarta Post) - The upcoming administration of president-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will face a tough challenge in the energy sector mainly due to declining oil production and a high level of fuel imports resulting from poor implementation of the mandatory biodiesel blend.

18/08/2014 (The Star) - When it comes to oil palm cultivation, Sugumaran Maniam is a veteran of sorts. His five-hectare plot in Sabah’s Kg Toniting has been churning out average yields for nearly two decades. Coupled with his wife’s income from a full-time administrative job, the smallholder’s earnings provide comfortably for his family of three.

18/08/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - Prices of raw coconut and coconut oil look set to boil over during the Onam season as the State is straddled with a shortage of locally produced copra and drop in the number of oil mills.

18/08/2014 (The Star) - Malaysia’s blue chips fell in early Monday trade, dragged down by plantations and profit taking of Petronas Gas though the broader market was firmer, supported by buying of small caps and lower liners.

18/08/2014 (Borneo Post) - In my article last week, I mentioned that the market is bearish but a technical rebound is expected with the index trading between 1,840 and 1,860 points. The market did rebound last week after the market found some footing after a knee-jerk reaction over US’s targeted airstrike in Iraq.

18/08/2014 (AllAfrica.com) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has called for improved relations with Nigeria given the nation's immense human and material resources.

18/008/2014 (Sun Daily) - The Malaysian economy, as measured in gross domestic product (GDP), is likely to exceed 5.5% growth judging from encouraging performance in the first half of 2014, with the economy growing 6.4% in the second quarter, building on the 6.2% rise in the first quarter, said Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz.

18/08/2014 (Borneo Post) - Malaysian crude palm oil prices continued to go lower on Friday.

18/08/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil exports from Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer, probably advanced in July to the highest level this year after India boosted purchases, helping to reduce stockpiles as output fell.

16/08/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysia, the second-largest palm grower, lowered its crude palm oil export tax for September to 4.5 percent, a government circular showed on Friday, the first cut in two months.

16/08/2014 (Nigerian Observer) - The basic fundamental of all economies is agriculture and all industrial nations know this. That their economies are on solid rock is basically because they have galvanized their agricultural potentials, which is also the offshoot of their industrial development That is why concerned citizens of Nigeria have continued to warn on the dangers of continued dependence In the nation on crude oil which is today the mainstay and sustaining source of the Nigerian economy.