Archived News

05/10/2011 (Leadership Newspaper) - As Nigeria celebrates, no concrete steps have been taken in the last years to support agriculture, despite the potential of the sector as a means of unlocking the wealth of the land for the benefit of the people, government has failed to give the sector adequate financial support to sustain it, writes GRACE AZUBUIKE.

04/10/2011 (Northern Voices Online) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Monday stressed that the need of bio-fuel should not be at the sacrifice of food security as the world should be alert against food scarcity.

04/10/2011 (Scotland Food and Drink [press release]) - The European Council of Ministers has now formally agreed the EU Regulation for provision of food information to consumers.

04/10/2011 (The Sun Daily) - The local agriculture sector needs to maintain its productivity growth and invest in technologies and systems, said a Harvard University professor.

04/10/2011 (Reuters) - The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) has withdrawn its membership from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), after the world's top producing country forged ahead with its own sustainability scheme, both groups said on Monday.

04/10/2011 (The News International) - Indonesia and India discuss trade this week with rice and edible oils likely to be on the agenda as Jakarta faces cuts in supplies of the grain from Thailand and New Delhi considers retaliation for a hike in crude palm oil prices.

04/10/2011 (Bloomberg) - Sime Darby Bhd. fell the most in two weeks in Kuala Lumpur trading, leading a slump in Malaysian plantation stocks after palm oil prices slid.

04/10/2011 (The Star) - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures fell to its lowest in almost a year with the benchmark CPO for three-month delivery falling RM60 to RM2,845 a tonne, in tandem with the weaker foreign commodity market due to the gloomy economic outlook.

04/10/2011 (Ehtical Corp) - Moves from the Carbon Disclosure Project, Nestlé, Shell and all the latest from other brands in corporate responsibility this month.

04/10/2011 (Agrimarket Consulting) - The company Delta Wilmar CIS will present as the general sponsor of the Anniversary 10th International Conference "Fat-and-Oil Industry – 2011", to be held on November 23-25, 2011, in Kiev (President Hotel). During ten-year history of the conference Delta Wilmar CIS 6 times became the sponsor of the specified event.

03/10/2011 (Business Week) - Malaysia’s palm oil exports fell 7.1 percent in September compared with the previous month, estimated Societe Generale de Surveillance, an independent cargo surveyor.

03/10/2011 (Borneo Post) - The woes affecting oil palm smallholders appear unending with a smallholder from Tatau expressing his grievances about the current policies practised by the government and the Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB).