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30/01/2012 (Borneo Post) - Cooperatives in the state must work with the state and federal government to develop or cultivate idle land in Sabah, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said.

30/01/2012 (Business Recorder) - Crude palm oil (CPO) output in Indonesia, the world's top producer of the vegetable oil, is seen rising 8 percent from a year ago to 4.5 million tonnes in the first quarter, an industry group said on Thursday.

30/01/2012 (Daily Express) - The BN government is doing all it can to ensure that that land owners without titles will get theirs, including those delayed by overlapping applications.

28/01/2012 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil, used to make everything from candy bars to biofuels, may drop 5.2 percent to 2,971 ringgit ($977) a metric ton next month after it touched a level viewed as significant by some traders, said Maybank-Kim Eng.

28/01/2012 (Bloomberg) - The Environmental Protection Agency said that biodiesel made from palm oil doesn’t meet the requirements to be added to its renewable fuels program because its greenhouse-gas emissions are too high.

28/01/2012 (The Guardian) - There are good biofuels and bad biofuels: the trick is telling one from the other. That's particularly difficult when trying to take account of the natural forests and wetlands that can destroyed in the drive to grow some biofuel crops. But we're getting closer, it seems, and palm oil and soy beans now appear utterly unsupportable as a source of biodiesel.

28/01/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - Sinar Mas, one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil producers, is spearheading new models of sustainable agriculture in the country in partnership with global giants such as Nestle.

28/01/2012 (Biofuels Digest) - In Washington, Friends of the Earth relates that the EPA is expected to announce tomorrow that diesel produced from palm oil releases too many greenhouse gas emissions to qualify as a renewable fuel.

28/01/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - Lack of demand weakened most edible oils on Friday.

28/01/2012 (Business Recorder) - Malaysian crude palm oil edged up on Friday in thin trades, lifted by optimism over the US Federal Reserve's pledge to keep interest rates low although gains were capped by fears of slowing demand.

28/01/2012 (Borneo Post) - Sarawak Plantation Bhd (Sarawak Plantation) is expected to register a profit of RM100 million before tax for 2011, which will be a increase of almost 100 per cent, from RM52 million in 2010.

28/01/2012 (Lanka Business Online) - Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantations said December 2011 quarter net profit fell 39 percent to 158 million rupees from a year ago, with a profit expected in the last quarter as well after losses earlier in the year.