Archived News

09/10/2012 (Ghana News Agency) – President John Dramani Mahama said government would continue to make huge investments in agriculture as that sector was the economic backbone of the country’s economy.

09/10/2012 (Triple Pundit) - The biofuel story can be a confusing one, since there are so many different types from so many different sources that are used in so many different ways. Let’s see if we can make some kind of sense of all this while gaining some understanding of where they come from and how they are produced.

09/10/2012 (Bioenergy News) - Thailand-based oil refiner Bangchak Petroleum’s president Anusorn Sangnimnuan says it is set to invest heavily into two biodiesel projects.

09/10/2012 (New Straits Times) - Palm oil accounts for the largest share of the global edible oil market. This is estimated to be 40 per cent. Soya bean oil is now in second place. Malaysia and Indonesia control almost 90 per cent of the market. More than 80 per cent of the world's palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia.

09/10/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysia will consider possible changes to its crude palm oil export tax regime on Friday, including limiting plantation expansion to support falling prices, a minister said on Monday.

08/10/2012 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil shipments from Indonesia, the world’s largest producer, are poised to tumble the most in four months in October because of weak demand from importers.

08/10/2012 (Patch.com) - Demand for palm oil is driving deforestation in Borneo, as trees are cleared to make way for the planting of oil farm plantations, which will send carbon dioxide, a global-warming gas, into the atmosphere.

08/10/2012 (Borneo Post) - Crude palm oil futures (FCPO) on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives continuously tumbled for the third week due to the anticipation of rising palm oil stocks in the coming months.

08/10/2012 (Borneo Post) - The government will issue a guideline to encourage villagers staying in the rural areas to involve themselves in rubber and oil palm plantation, and the livestock sector.

08/10/2012 (Jakarta Post) - The Migrant Worker Placement and Protection Agency (BP2TKI) has officially sent 53 legal migrant workers from Nunukan, East Kalimantan, to employment placements at oil palm plantation companies in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia.

08/10/2012 (Bulatlat.com) - Children as young as 10 years old do backbreaking work for meager wages in what the Aquino government calls as one of its “sunshine industries,” the palm oil plantations in Caraga region in Mindanao island.

08/10/2012 (Indian Express) - The wholesale oils and oilseeds market ended on a mixed note during the week as select edible oils continued to slide on increased selling by stockists driven by a weak global trend, while a few others recovered onlocal buying.