Archived News

02/06/2011 (FoodNavigator.com) - A new logo allows confectionery, biscuit and other food producers show their commitment to sustainable palm oil, which in turn will boost global demand, says the RSPO.

02/06/2011 (The Star) - Biodiesel is now available in the market. Beginning this month until October, the supply of the new fuel will be available in stages starting at Putrajaya followed by Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor respectively.

02/06/2011 (The Guardian) - The attraction to the Chinese of access to an area of land in Patagonia larger than Cornwall is obvious. As China's economy grows and its population becomes more urbanised, diets are changing rapidly. People are eating more industrially produced meat and dairy products, and buying more processed foods.

02/06/2011 (Bloomberg) - PZ Cussons Plc Chief Executive Officer Alex Kanellis once spent six months tracking down and recovering a train load of soap lost in Nigerian bush country.

02/06/2011 (British Baker) - Sustainability in the palm oil industry is largely being driven by GreenPalm certificates – instead of physical sustainable palm oil, according to new figures from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

01/06/2011 (Bernama) - The Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) recorded RM3.23 billion worth of investments via private sector participation between January and April.

01/06/2011 (The Guardian) - The area of Guatemala given over to palm plantations to produce agrofuel increased by 146% between 2005 and 2010, according to estimates by the National Institute for Agrarian and Rural Studies in Guatemala City. This huge expansion has been largely unregulated.

01/06/2011 (Solomon Star) - The two national oil palm development projects in Auluta and Waisisi, Malaita province will start off as soon as formalities are ready this year.

01/06/2011 (Pattaya Mail) - The Ministry of Commerce is preparing to ask the National Palm Oil Policy Committee to cancel the subsidy for palm oil refineries as they are buying palm fruits at lower than the price ceiling.

01/06/2011 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil prices traded a shade higher by Re 1 to Rs 535 per 10 kg in futures trading today as speculators enlarged their positions on the back of a firming global trend.

01/06/2011 (Msn News) - Palmolein oil prices declined by Rs 20 per quintal in an otherwise steady wholesale oils and oilseeds market due to weak global trend.

01/06/2011 (FreshPlaza) - Agrocaribe is the first African palm oil producer in the world to be certified under the standards set by the Sustainable Agricultural Network (SAN) of the Rainforest Alliance Certification program. Thirty farms were certified in a record-setting, five month time period.