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23/12/2025 (Business Recorder) - The benchmark palm oil contract for March delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange (BMDE) gained 51 ringgit, or 1.28%, to 4,036 ringgit ($994.09) a metric ton at the close.

23/12/2025 (UkrAgroConsult) - Ukrainian sunflower seed processors remain in high demand for raw materials at the end of the year. A significant part of the plants enter 2026 with an insufficient level of coverage, Spike Brokers reports.

23/12/2025 (Farmers Review Africa) - Africa is losing forests at an alarming rate. Between 2010 and 2020, the continent recorded the world’s highest rate of forest loss, at around 3.9 million hectares per year, equivalent to 381 million soccer fields (The Conversation, 2025). The main drivers behind this forest loss or deforestation include agricultural expansion, unsustainable fuelwood harvesting, logging, and mining.

23/12/2025 (The Star), Petaling Jaya - Kim Loong Resources Bhd is acquiring 75% equity interest in Kim Loong Mills (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd (KLMS) from Kim Loong Plantations Sdn Bhd (KLP) for RM10mil.

22/12/2025 (Directors Talk Interviews) - Palm oil prices are firming. A combination of export resilience, currency softness, and supportive moves in adjacent commodities is starting to build a more constructive case.

23/12/2025 (The Global New Light of Myanmar) - The wholesale reference rate of palm oil set for the Yangon market showed a steady decline of K230 per viss in the past four weeks, according to the Supervisory Committee on Edible Oil Import and Distribution.

22/12/2025 (UkrAgroConsult) - Malaysia’s palm oil market is expected to stabilise in 2026, underpinned by stronger export growth and easing production, as global demand improves amid more competitive pricing, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC).

22/12/2025 (The Edge Malaysia) - WHEN people think of healthy oils, olive oil usually comes to mind. It is the star of the Mediterranean diet, praised for lowering cholesterol and protecting the heart. But here in the tropics, another oil quietly plays a similar role: palm olein, the liquid fraction of palm oil. Could this be the “olive oil of the tropics”?

Growing pressure from global sustainability requirements, including new regulations introduced by the European Union (EU), may prompt some palm oil producers to divert exports to markets with more lenient standards.

PETALING JAYA: United Malacca Bhd ’s efforts to improve oil palm yields at its Indonesian estates are bearing fruit, as indicated by its strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed expectations

Vegetable and Edible Oil Producers Association of Nigeria (VEOPAN) has lamented the ceaseless smuggling of vegetable and edible oil into the country and called on the federal government to implement the policy which banned the smuggling of the vegetable and edible oil into the country

The 13th Ministerial Meeting of the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) was held on 17 December 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under the chairmanship of YBhg. Dato’ Yusran Shah bin Mohd Yusof on behalf of the Minister of Plantation and Commodities of Malaysia.