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09/04/2012 (Daily Times) - The Pakistan government should reduce duty on palm oil products’ imports from Malaysia just like the 15 percent duty cut made for Indonesia, importers said on Friday.

09/04/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - Biofuels are expected to account for more than a quarter of transportation fuel consumption worldwide by 2050, but Indonesia could miss out on the benefits without greater government commitment to local biofuel production.

09/04/2012 (The Star) - Palm oil is a good choice to help improve health.

09/04/2012 (New Straits Times) - TIN its 56 years of existence, the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) has evolved with time to support the needs of its smallholders and the nation. Throughout this time, its culture of striving to continuously improve the economic well-being of rural citizens has been its driving force. Today, it is not only Felda settlers who reap the benefits, but also their children and the whole nation.

09/04/2012 (New Straits Times) - Is it really in Europe's interest to provoke a trade war with emerging markets in Southeast Asia and Latin America over biofuels? Of course it is not.

09/04/2012 (The Star) - Pakistan's palm oil importers want their government to reduce duty on palm oil product imports from Malaysia just like the 15% duty cut made for Indonesia.

09/04/2012 (Nigerian Tribune) - If Nigeria is to starve off famine that stares it in the face now, the right path to take is for the government at both federal and the states to support efforts by farmer groups to aggressively transform the agricultural sector of the economy. This view was canvassed by Chief Kamorudeen Aremu Okikiola, President, Agbekoya Farmers’ Asociation at the inauguration of the Osun State chapter of the association in Osogbo recently. Okikiola noted that the era of paying lip service to food sufficiency in the country was gone for good, as a nation that cannot feed itself will be at the mercy of those feeding it with the danger of compromising its security.

09/04/2012 (The News) - The country’s palm oil imports witnessed an increase of 28.36 percent during the first eight months of the current fiscal year against the same period last year, according to the official data on Friday.

09/04/2012 (Business Recorder) - Business Recorder did not receive the daily cargo handling operation report from Karachi Port Trust (KPT) on Saturday.

09/04/2012 (New Straits Times) - A group of researchers is embarking on a clinical trial on breast-cancer patients to find out if the vitamin E extracted from palm oil is an effective anti-cancer agent.

06/04/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures were barely changed at the close of trading on Thursday, after gaining more than 3 percent in the last three sessions, as demand hopes stemming from worries about tighter soybean supply continued to support prices.

06/04/2012 (Bloomberg) - Cooking-oil imports by India, the world’s biggest palm oil buyer, probably more than doubled in March as high domestic prices and speculation that taxes will be increased in the annual budget spurred buying.