Archived News

15/04/2010 (Joy Online) - A District Magistrate's Court at Kade on Wednesday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a farmer for stealing 15 gallons of palm oil.

15/04/2010 (Bernama) - The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities has no plan yet to make "sugar palms" or palm trees which produce sugar, as a new commodity source.

14/04/2010 (WWF Website) - More sustainably produced palm oil is being purchased than ever before, according to the latest figures from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

14/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil was little changed, tracking soybean oil prices, on expectations of a record oilseed harvest in South America.

14/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - A revaluation of the yuan that’s too rapid could curb income growth and slow the expansion of food demand in the world’s most populous nation, according to a Rabobank Groep NV analyst.

14/04/2010 (The Jakarta Post) - The forestry ministry dropped its controversial initiative to classify oil palm plantations as forests after strong protests from environmental activists on fears that it would speed up deforestation.

14/04/2010 (Food Ingredient First) - Lipidos Santiga (Lipsa) has noted that it obtained the certification to supply sustainable palm and palm kernel oils in the categories of Segregation and Mass Balance as per the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) criteria on December 8, 2009.

13/04/2010 (Environmental Leader) - Environmentalists are criticizing Chelveston Renewable Energy in the UK for planning to burn tropical palm oil to generate electricity, reports Times Online. The renewable energy company recently received permission to build a bio-oil power station on a former RAF bomber base.

13/04/2010 (The Star Online) - MUCH hope has been placed on increasing the mechanisation of palm fruit harvesting techniques and reducing foreign labour in the country’s robust oil palm industry.

13/04/2010 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - The decline in palm oil stocks in March does not come as a surprise as it is approaching the typically “low stock season” from April to May.

12/04/2010 (China Post) - An energy firm in the UK has been given the thumbs up to go ahead with a new electricity power plant which will be run on palm oil, it has been reported.

12/04/2010 (Gulf Times), Indonesia - It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction of the orangutan, but palm oil is a vital source of income for many developing countries, the crop’s producers say.