Archived News
06-02-2006
Market outlook: Post-holiday rally, plantations surge
5/2/06 (The Edge Daily) - Investors returned from the long Chinese New Year holidays to a rousing rally on Feb 3 - despite the fact that many investors were still away for the long break.
06-02-2006
Malaysia-Indonesia palm oil pact seen curbing price undercutting
4/2/2006 (Business Times) - THE proposed palm oil pact between Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's first and second largest producers respectively, will curb price undercutting and spur research and development (R&D) activities.
06-02-2006
India's edible oil imports may fall
3/2/06 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thurs: Edible oil imports by India, the world's largest buyer, are likely to decline by 21 per cent in the first quarter of 2006 because of strong domestic supplies, a top industry official said today.
02-02-2006
Attend Biofuels Markets Brussels!
With the European Directive targeting 5.75% biofuels usage by 2010 the industry is mobilising, biorefineries are being built and contracts draw up with feedstock suppliers across the region.
02-02-2006
U.S., Malaysian Firms Start Joint Venture for Biodiesel Processing
30/1/2006 Business Times (Malaysia) - DXN Holdings Bhd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Future Nutri Sdn Bhd, is setting up a 50:50 joint-venture company with Green Diesel Corp from the US to venture into the biodiesel business.
02-02-2006
Sarangani dangles 80T hectares to investors for oil palm use
2/2/06 (Sun Star) - THREE more towns in Sarangani province were identified as oil palm investment areas that could accommodate 80,000 hectares for the crop's cultivation.
02-02-2006
Perlop settlers: Wild jumbos destroying our oil palm trees
1/2/06 (The Star) - About 100 settlers of Perlop Land Scheme in Sungai Siput are putting up with losses worth millions of ringgit after wild elephants destroyed some 50ha of their young oil palm trees.
02-02-2006
Tariff value for soya oil down by USD 8, palm oil by USD 3
31/1/06 New Delhi, (New Kalara.com) - Government today reduced tariff value for crude soybean oil by eight dollar and crude palm oil by three dollar in its fortnightly revision for major edible oil imports.
02-02-2006
Golden Hope to streamline biodiesel operations
1/2/06 (The Star) - Golden Hope Plantations Bhd (GHope) plans to consolidate its biodiesel projects this year, but will remain active in land expansion for oil palm cultivation in Indonesia.
02-02-2006
Tariff values cut for vegetable oils
31/1/06 Chennai (The Hindu) - THE Union Government on Tuesday cut the tariff values or the base price at which the customs duty are calculated for vegetable oils. This is the third time that it has cut the values this year.
02-02-2006
Biofuel to Drive Indonesian Palm Oil Expansion
7/1/06 JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government plans to develop 3 million hectares of palm oil plantations in the next five years to meet increasing demand for biofuel as an alternative source of energy, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
02-02-2006
Chin Teck To Continue Oil Palm Replanting Programme
26/1/06 KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) -- Chin Teck Plantations Bhd will replant 800 hectares of oil palm plantations in Malaysia this year, and plant an additional area of 4,000 hectares in Indonesia over the next three years to meet supply.