Archived News
13-09-2003
M'sia Calls For Cut In High Agri Tariffs To Reason
CANCUN (Mexico), Sept 12 (Bernama) - Malaysia, whose palm oil exports tosome markets are subject to tariffs as high as 300 percent, has called onWorld Trade Organization (WTO) members to reduce such discriminatoryagricultural tariffs to more reasonable levels.
12-09-2003
Explicit Consensus Is Vital For Success Of WTO Mee
CANCUN (Mexico), Sept 9 (Bernama) -- For global trade talks to succeed,the fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference must comeout with a statement which all the 148 WTO members will have to agreethrough explicit consensus, the Minister of International Trade andIndustry, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said.
03-09-2003
More arrests soon over palm oil theft
Wednesday September 3, 2003 - PENANG: Police, who have arrested sixmembers of a syndicate that stole crude palm oil from a refinery in BukitTambun, Nibong Tebal, expect to pick up at least 20 more people soon.
03-09-2003
Vegetable Oil Imports By India Decline
NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (Bernama) -- Vegetable oil imports by India declinedsharply in August this year despite the coming festival season.
29-08-2003
Carrying The "Malaysia Boleh" Spirit To Green Chin
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 28 (Bernama) -- Researcher and company director Yeo KimLuang has an interesting story to tell: Malaysia's humble palm oil biomasshas been more successful than other media produced by Japan, South Koreaor Germany in preventing soil erosion in sandstorm-prone deserts ofChina's outlying areas.
28-08-2003
Challenge to embark on new applications
28/8/2003 - THE International Palm Oil Congress, or PIPOC 2003, organisedby the Malaysian Palm Oil Board ended yesterday with a challenge toindustry players to embark on newly identified applications for palm oilwhile focusing on better market access, branding, efficient productioncosts, quality and competitiveness.
28-08-2003
Fibrous feed
27/8/2003 - Recycling oil palm wastes into animal feed can be a viablebusiness and will go a long way towards reducing Malaysia’s imports ofsuch feeds.
28-08-2003
Growing Palm Oil Industry Will Not Lead To Defores
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- Indonesia's plan to become the largestproducer of palm oil has raised some concerns at the ongoing MPOBInternational Palm Oil Congress 2003 here, particularly on the amount ofdeforestation activity that would be involved.
28-08-2003
Heralding The New Age Oil Palm Plantations
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- Who would imagine that in the second halfof the millinnieum, oil palm plantations would turn into something quitedifferent from what they are today.
28-08-2003
Jambi has good potential as site
28/8/2003 - JAMBI, a province in Indonesia, has the potential to becomethe preferred site for oil palm investments in the country, said IndonesiaOil Palm Research Institute statistician Dr Lalang Buana.
28-08-2003
M'sia To Produce Nanomass From EFB By 2004
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with a Canadian jointventure company, Eco-Partners (M) Sdn Bhd, to build a pilot plant by thatcan convert empty fruit bunches (EFB), fibre and shell into dry finepowders or Nanomass by 2004.
28-08-2003
Mechanisation Vital For Cutting Down Dependency On
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- The oil palm industry has to push for theadoption of mechanisation to increase productivity while decreasing thenumber of manpower, particularly in the importation of foreign workers.