Archived News

30/11/05 (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - Brighter prospects are on hand for Philippine coconut producers and millers as local manufacturers expand operations and a new biodiesel plant comes on-stream next year.

30/11/2005 (Financial Express) - Genome-mapping through PCR-based (Polymerase chain reaction) molecular markers could unlock R&D in plantation crops like cocoa, arecanut, oil palm, acacia and cinchona too, according to Dr K V Peter, Vice Chancellor, Kerala Agricultural University.

29/11/05 (Thai Press Reports) -Indonesia, the largest country in Southeast Asia, is likely to surpass Malaysia as the world's biggest palm oil producer.

21/11/05 RIO DE JANEIRO (Agence France-Presse) - Brazil could lead the world toward a revolution in biodiesel and become a world energy leader, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.