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04/10/04 JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--Indonesia plans to expand its oil palmplantation areas to 10 million hectares within three decades to more thandouble its crude palm oil output, Minister of Agriculture Bungaran Saragihsaid Monday.

04/10/094 - JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Palm oil futures in Malaysia, the world'sbiggest exporter of the edible oil, may decline this week because ofslowing purchases from India and China.

Sun Oct 3,11:26 PM Science - SINGAPORE (Reuters) - After a seeminglyunending string of hurricanes and typhoons, talk that the "little boy" isstirring in the Pacific is unwelcome news for weather-battered farmers.

Sunday October 3, 2004 MIRI: The Plantation Industries and CommoditiesMinistry wants to see more mechanisation in the plantation sector toreduce the amount spent on labour, especially foreign workers.

Friday October 1, 2004 - THE Ministry of Plantation Industries andCommodities has granted approval for additional duty-free crude palm oil(CPO) exports, given the higher-than-expected level of CPO stocks lastmonth and in the face of intense competition from Indonesia.Our concept of duty-free CPO exports is simple, said its minister, DatukPeter Chin Fah Kui.

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- PT Astra Agro Lestari, Indonesia's biggest publiclytraded agricultural company, said its palm oil production may increase byas much as a fifth next year, about the same as growth this year, becausemore trees will mature.

JAKARTA, Sept 30 Asia Pulse - The Indonesian Association of Palm OilCompanies (Gapki) predicted that the price of palm oil will increase by 5per cent early next year.

Mumbai , Oct. 2 - EDIBLE oil imports into the country were an estimated6.26 lakh tonnes (lt) in September as per preliminary data made availableto Business Line by the industry portal oilmandi.com.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 (Bernama) -- Dr Farouk Abd-Elaziem Gad, an AssociateProfessor in molecular biotechnology engineering at the InternationalIslamic University (IIU) in Gombak near here, has yielded positive resultsfrom his research on local plant wastes as he has found ways to convertthem into useful enzymes.

Oct 3 - HERBICIDES are the most commonly used chemicals in plantations,followed by insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides.About 80 per cent of plantations and farms use the herbicide paraquat,commonly called kopi-o, because of its coffee colour.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 (Bernama) -- Minister of Plantation Industries andCommodities, Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui, said Thursday that he has approvedadditional duty free Crude Palm Oil (CPO) for export this year.

9/30/2004 MANILA (Dow Jones)--The Philippines hopes to start exportingcoconut-based biodiesel to Japan next year, to meet demand for moreenvironmentally friendly fuels for automobiles, a senior official from theDepartment of Agriculture said Wednesday.