Archived News
24-02-2009
Oil-Palm Smallholders to Get Sustainable Farming Training
21/02/2009 (Jakarta Globe) - Small-scale oil-palm farmers are being encouraged to go green, and will be provided with training on how to run their plantations without harming the environment, Achmad Mangga Barani, the director general of plantations said at the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday.
24-02-2009
India\'s edible oil imports likely to spurt in Feb
20/02/2009 (Commodity Online), Mumbai - India’s edible oil imports during the December-February quarter are expected to be a whopping 2.3 million tons, including 1.9 million tons of palm oil, almost double of normal.
24-02-2009
Indonesia lifts ban on palm oil plantations
19/02/2009 (Business Green) - As research reveals tropical rainforests are an even more important store of carbon than previously thought, the Indonesian government finds new ways to cut them down.
24-02-2009
A free trade deal gone awry
19/02/2009 (The Wall Street Journal) - After years of hard negotiations, India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) had finalized a free trade agreement (FTA). The deal was to be inked in December but now, suddenly, India has developed cold feet.
24-02-2009
Malaysia to Provide Palm Oil Refinery Training To Pakistani Experts
19/02/2009 (APP), Karachi - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and its Pakistan counterpart Pakistan Edible Oil Development Refiners Association (PEORA) have signed an agreement that will enable Malaysia to share its technical know-how to Pakistani experts in the refinery industry.
24-02-2009
Falling cooking oil prices ease govt\'s subsidy burden
19/02/2009 (Associated Press of Pakistan), New Delhi - A declining trend in global prices of edible oils has taken the subsidy burden off the government, which has slashed the budget allocation on the same by 63 per cent for the next fiscal.
24-02-2009
Malaysia to train Pakistani experts on palm oil refinery
19/02/2009 (Associated Press of Pakistan), Islamabad - Malaysia will send technical experts to Pakistan in May to train the engineers on refining crude palm oil. The decision was taken after Pakistan Edible Oil Refiners Association and Malaysian Palm Oil Board signed an agreement in Karachi to share the technical know-how in refinery industry.
24-02-2009
Malaysia embarks on world\'s first intelligent plantations
18/02/2009 (It World) - Computerworld Malaysia — Malaysian applied research agency MIMOS and Felda Agricultural Services (FAS) have inked a deal to develop the world's first "intelligent plantations."
24-02-2009
Go-ahead for £18m palm oil plant in Mersey docklands
16/02/2009 (LDP Business) - A PALM oil processing facility will be built in the Mersey docklands in a scheme worth £18m.
24-02-2009
Activists denounce plan to allow palm oil firms in peatlands
16/02/2009 (The Jakarta Post) - Environmental activists have mounted a challenge against the government’s plan to allow palm oil companies to set up plantations in the country’s remaining peatlands.
24-02-2009
BAAC to help rubber, oil palm farmers
15/02/2009 (Bangkok Post) - The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) planned to allocate a budget of 12 billion baht to help lift the sinking prices of para rubber and oil palm prices, BAAC senior executive vice president Ennoo Suesuwan said on Sunday.
24-02-2009
Whole Foods bans unsustainable palm oil from its products
24/02/2009 (Mongabay.com) - Whole Foods pledges to use only sources of palm oil that have been independently verified and certified to meet environmental and social sustainability criteria in its private label brand products by 2012.