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30/09/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) -- The agriculture sector is expected togrow at a higher rate of five percent in 2006, contributed by higherproduction of palm oil and rubber and increase in food production, saysthe Treasury in its 2005/2006 Economic Report released Friday.

2/10/05 (The Edge Daily) - Europe’s largest and fastest-growing supplierof biofuel BIOX Group BV is coming to Malaysia with big plans, includingsourcing up to 300,000 tonnes of biomass consisting of palm oil and palmoil by-products annually by the beginning of 2007.

1/10/05 KUALA LUMPUR,(Bernama) -- Felcra Bhd is in the process ofidentifying biodiesel technology, which can be used to determine palm oilpercentage in diesel, says its chairman Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin.

29/09/05 KUCHING, (Bernama) -- The Iban community in Aping, Pantu, SriAman Division, about 120 kilometres from Kuching, has launched asmallholder oil palm scheme as a community-based effort on their nativecustomary rights (NCR) land.

30/09/05 NEW YORK, (Bernama) -- Even as Malaysia debates over theincreased use of palm-oil based biodiesel as an alternative toconventional fossil fuel in the future -- biodiesel was a key themediscussed at the recent International Palm Oil Congress 2005 in PetalingJaya -- the use of agriculture-derived renewable sources of energy isproceeding apace in other parts of the world.

10/3/2005 (Business Line) - Recently in Mumbai - By the end of next year,Malaysian companies could control up to 60 per cent of the edible oilrefining capacities in Europe.

29/9/2005 (Business Times)- Catotech Bhd, a 51 per cent-owned unit ofHovid Bhd, plans to spend at least RM100 million to boost the capacity ofits biodiesel plant to meet rising global demand for "green" oil and palmoil-based health products.

28/09/2005 ZAMBOANGA CITY (Minda News)-- Malaysian and Filipinoinvestors are pouring in as much as P16.7 billion in oil palm plantationin three provinces in Western Mindanao.The investors have identified vast areas ideal for oil palm plantation inthe provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga delNorte.

3/10/ 2005 ZAMBOANGA CITY, (Asia Pulse) - Malaysian and Filipino investorsare set to pour some P16.7 billion (US$298.3 million) investments in oilpalm plantations in three provinces in Western Mindanao once the industryis fully operational.

28/09/05 PETALING JAYA, (Bernama) -- Plywood made from oil palm trunks caneasily be marketed in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan due toits environment-friendliness, lightness and easy to work with concept thatthe commodity carries.

29/09/05 MUMBAI, India (Reuters) -- Biodiesel is the new buzzword lightingup the palm oil industry.

30/09/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) -- Malaysia's palm oil export is expectedto increase 10.5 percent to RM22.707 billion next year on higher volumeand better prices.