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3/10/06 (Sun Star) - ZAMBOANGA Sibugay is eyeing to become the center of oil palm industry in Zamboanga Peninsula having at least 113,000 hectares open for investors to develop oil palm plantations.

3/10/06 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) AMES, Iowa -- In his cramped lab at Iowa State University here, Walt Fehr developed a soybean whose oil could help eliminate one of the biggest problems facing the food industry today: trans fats blamed for everything from heart disease to hypertension to memory loss.

JAMBI, Oct 2 (Bernama) -- Jambi deputy governor Antony Zeidra Abidin held an impromptu meeting Sunday with a number of head of agencies and related authorities under his administration to deal with the increasingly thickening fog over Jambi, caused by forest and oil palm plantation fire.

2/10/06 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: The ban on the herbicide paraquat will be temporarily lifted from Nov 1, to allow a comprehensive study on its many uses

2/10/06 (The Star) - KENINGAU: A proposed mini estate to benefit the poor in this interior Sabah district has instead got a group of farmers up in arms as they claim the project will cause them to lose the land they had been tilling for more than two decades.

29/09/06 (Detroit News) PORTO NACIONAL, Brazil -- For the better part of his 64 years, Sebastian Luis de Sousa has scratched a meager living in the paprika-red soil of central Brazil.

28/09/06 JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia plans to offer some 17 million hectares (42 million acres) of lapsed or unused forest concessions to investors interested in developing timber and farming

28/09/06 (Agexporter) - While China views biofuel production as an essential and strategic component of a secure economy and diversified energy policy, concerns about the impact on food self-sufficiency have slowed development of the biofuel sector.

28/09/06 (The Edge News) - South Korea is beating Japan and China in its push into the emerging biodiesel industry thanks to a government mandate that has opened a small but expanding market for the green fuel from Southeast Asia.

26/9/06 (The Star) - PETALING JAYA: The decline in oil prices will benefit airlines but could adversely affect biodiesel ventures by commodity-based companies, analysts said.

27/9/06 (CBS) Three years after New York City banned smoking in restaurants, city health officials are talking about a new rule for its 24,600 food service establishments: dramatic restrictions on the use of artificial trans fatty acids.

27/9/06 (The Guardian) - The reputation of the "green" power sector was badly dented today when Biofuels admitted it had been forced to halt deliveries due to another bout of technical problems at a new plant.