Archived News
23-11-2005
Canadian Canola Industry Seeking to Enter India's Edible Oil Market
21/11/05 Mumbai (Business Line) - The vegetable oil import basket of the world's second largest importer, India, is dominated by the palm group of oils followed by soyabean oil, to the virtual exclusion of all other oils save a small quantity of sunflower oil and coconut oil
23-11-2005
Indonesia's Plans for Borneo Palm Oil Plantation Pits Environment Against Economics
22/11/2005 (Philadelphia Inquirer) - In the heart of Borneo, home to one of the world's last remaining expanses of intact rain forest, Hermas Rintik Maring, an avid conservationist, marvels at the life within the vast canopies of jungle green that for centuries have made this tropical island vital to the health of the region. At the same time, he says he fears this pristine forest could fall to the whine of chain saws and the rumble of bulldozers clearing land for what has been billed as the world's largest palm oil plantation.
23-11-2005
Sustainable Palm Oil Principles For Adoption At Roundtable
22/11/05 SINGAPORE, (Bernama) -- An eight-point principles and criteria (P&C) that seeks to implement the best approach to sustainable palm oil production globally has been tabled for formal adoption at the Third Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), here Tuesday.
23-11-2005
All signs point to higher crude palm oil price
21/11/05 (The Star) - THE price of crude palm oil (CPO), which is showing no sign of weakening, has the potential to register further increase as it enters into the new price cycle by year-end.
23-11-2005
Indian Chamber Asks Govt To Reduce Import Duty On Crude Palm Oil
21/11/05 NEW DELHI, (Asia Pulse) - Pointing that duty free imports of vanaspati were hitting the domestic industry hard, PHDCCI on Friday asked the Government to reduce the import duty on crude palm oil to 20 per cent from current 81.9 per cent.
23-11-2005
MPOB Plans Strategies to Increase Palm Oil Production
22/11/05 SEREMBAN (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has lined up several strategies to raise the production of palm oil from two sectors, namely its plantation agencies and smallholders in the country.
23-11-2005
Sierra Leone Keen To Replicate Malaysia's Felda Scheme
21/11/05 KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) -- Sierra Leone, is keen to replicate Malaysia's Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) scheme as part of efforts to develop its agriculture sector and eradicate poverty.
23-11-2005
Outcome Of WTO Talks Must Be Win-win For All
16/11/05 South Korea (Bernama) -- Malaysia says the result of the upcoming World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations in Hong Kong must be a win-win situation for all.
23-11-2005
ARGENTINA 'SOY KING' SEES GRAIN OUTPUT DOWN 05 - 06
22/11/05 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Argentina's "soy king", Gustavo Grobocopatel, predicted on Tuesday that grain production will take a dive this season despite expanded soybean area.
23-11-2005
OILWORLD EXPECTS RISE IN EXPORTERS' SOYOIL STOCK
22/11/05 HAMBURG, (Reuters) - Soyoil stocks in the main exporting countries the U.S., Argentina and Brazil are likely to reach 1,487,000 tonnes on December 31, 2005, up a hefty 351,000 tonnes on the year, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World forecasts.
23-11-2005
MALAYSIA IOI EYES GREEN ENERGY EXPENSION IN EUROPE
22/11/05 AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) - Leading Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Group
21-11-2005
Russia set 15 pc import tax for packaged palm oil
Decree of Russian government, dated October 13 this year "About Approval of the Rates of Import Customs Duties for Palm Oil" has entered into force.