Archived News
10-08-2005
Plantation Commodities Will Continue To Spearhead
09/08/05 KUALA LUMPUR,(Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri NajibTun Razak is confident that the plantation commodities will continue tospearhead the development of the agriculture sector in Malaysia in futureand to provide an important source of revenue to the country.
10-08-2005
Soya rust spreads
10/08/05 WASHINGTON (Reuters): The highly contagious soyabean rustdisease spread to another county in Alabama and may have crept intoMissouri, state and federal officials said on Tuesday.
10-08-2005
UN seeks aid for war-ruined Iraq seed sector
09/08/05 ROME (Reuters): The war in Iraq destroyed the country's seedindustry, putting the country's domestic food supply at risk, the UnitedNations food agency said on Monday as it appealed for aid to rebuildfarming. The Food and Agriculture Organisation said it needed $5.4 millionto help the agriculture ministry rebuild a seed industry destroyed by thefighting and looting.
10-08-2005
Versatility of palm oil bodes well for prices
10/08/05 (Herald Tribune) - Palm oil futures are forecast to rise asmuch as 19 percent in the next 12 months, as India and China buy morecooking oil and record petroleum prices bolster demand in Europe forsubstitute fuels, according to analysts.
05-08-2005
Spectrum Organics Leads the Charge for Palm Fruit
4/8/2005 PETALUMA, Calif.-- Spectrum Organic Products (OTCBB:SPOP), theproducer of Spectrum Naturals Organic Shortening, wants its customers andthe community to clearly understand the health benefits of high-quality,organic palm fruit oil and the sustainable agricultural practices employedby its supplier Daabon.
05-08-2005
MALAYSIA'S IOI CORP TO STREAMLINE ITS PALM OIL BUS
3/8/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Asia Pulse) - IOI Corporation Bhd plans toconsolidate and streamline its palm oil business by privatising IOIOleochemical Industries Bhd (IOI Oleo)
05-08-2005
Soybean Farmers Developing Less Fatty Cooking Oil
5/8/05 (RedNova) - Soybean farmers are battling to keep their marketdominance in cooking oils with a new generation of plants that don'tproduce the transfats that are linked to heart disease.
03-08-2005
BIMP-EAGA To Push Growth Of Palm Oil, Seaweeds, Po
1/08/05 DAVAO CITY, (Asia Pulse) - Trade leaders in the Brunei, Indonesia,Malaysia, Philippines-East Asian Growth Area (BIMP-Eaga) are firming upstrategies to intensify growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) inthe region.
03-08-2005
IJMP plans RM30m mill in Sabah
02/08/05 Sabah (The Edge Daily) - IJM Plantations Bhd (IJMP) will investat least RM30 million to build a palm oil mill in Sabah to cope with theanticipated higher output when its young plantations mature in about 24 to30 months.
03-08-2005
M. Mosaics to strengthen non-palm oil businesses
29/07/05 (Business Times) - MALAYSIAN Mosaics Bhd, which owns 40,485hectares of oil palm plantations in Sabah, will be going all out to boostits other businesses this year to cushion the impact of lower crude palmoil (CPO) prices.
03-08-2005
Oilpalmworld To Launch Internet Portal For Commerc
1/08/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) -- One-stop business-to-businesselectronic exchange company, Oilpalmworld Sdn Bhd, will launch an Internetportal for all commerce functions of the global palm oil industry onAugust 8.
03-08-2005
Serdang Valley To Be Developed As Agropolis
01/08/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) -- The Serdang Valley covering 2,400hectares will be developed into an "agropolis" of research institutionsthat play a key role in upgrading the agriculture sector, Datuk SeriAbdullah Ahmad Badawi said.