Archived News

25/08/2009 (Dairy Reporter.com) - Greenpeace has attacked dairy giant Fonterra for using palm-based animal feed from cleared forests and for pushing an intensive farming model in New Zealand.

25/08/2009 (The Star) - PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s call for Felda, Felcra and Risda to form a consortium to jointly explore downstream projects and other mutual cooperations could not have come at a better time.

24/08/2009 (The Christian Sciences Monitor), TRIPA SWAMP, INDONESIA – The surveyor mapping the rain forest below was so shocked that he couldn’t speak. From the air it looked as if someone had bombed with white phosphorus. Plumes of smoke rose from the earth where 150-foot hardwoods lay like toothpicks. Nearby, formations of oil palm plantations advanced, precise as an army.

25/08/2009 (Bloomberg), New Delhi - India, the world’s biggest buyer of palm oil after China, may produce fewer monsoon-sown oilseeds as dry weather in the main growing areas reduced sowing of peanuts.

23/08/2009 (3News.co.nz) - Dairy farmers are being blamed for the destruction of tropical rain forests. New Zealand cows ate more than 1 million tonnes of palm kernels last year - a quarter of the world's total consumption of the palm oil by-product.

23/08/2009 (Deforestration Watch) - Environmental critics like the Palm Oil Group (POA), Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth (FOE) and the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) have been launching spurious allegations against the palm oil industry accusing it, inter alia, of causing massive deforestation and threatening the existence of the orang utan.

23/08/2009 (3news.co.nz) - Dairy farmers are being blamed for the destruction of tropical rain forests. New Zealand cows ate more than 1 million tonnes of palm kernels last year - a quarter of the world's total consumption of the palm oil by-product.

21/08/2009 (The Star Online), Subang - IJM Plantations Bhd’s palm oil production next year will be much higher than this year though it will not be a double-digit growth, says chief executive officer and managing director Velayuthan Tan.

20/08/2009 (Guardian.co.uk) - They are breaking open the chocolate bars at Auckland zoo in New Zealand this week. The keepers have been running a campaign to get Cadbury to remove palm oil from its chocolate. It's been headline news down there, since Cadbury's recently added the palm oil to make local Dairy Milk "softer".

13/08/2009 (MCOT.Net), Bangkok - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India have signed a long-awaited free trade agreement (FTA) which would take effect next year and increase trade between ASEAN and India to US$60 billion within seven years, according to Thai Commerce Minister Pornthiva Nakasai.

19/08/2009 (China Knowledge) - China National Cereals, Oils&Foodstuffs Corp, the country's largest edible oil and food producer, is planning to set up a soybean-processing plant with an annual capacity of 1.2 million tons in Beibu Gulf Economic Zone in Qinzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

19/08/2009 (CCTV.com) - China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO), the country's largest oil and food producer, is planning to build a soybean-processing plant in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region with a capacity of 1.2 million tons a year.