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CPO prices to consolidate at RM4,000 to RM4,300
CPO Futures Close Higher On Stronger Crude Oil Prices Amid US-Iran Conflict
CPO Futures Set To Trade Higher Next Week On Rising Crude Oil Prices
Trade Minister Launches 2.8 Million Fund To Support MSMEs
30/01/2012 (GhanaWeb) - The Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Hanna Tetteh has launched a 2.8 million dollar Business Development Services (BDS) Fund with a call on the private sector to access the facility to improve their business performance.
Cooperatives Urged To Cultivate Idle Land
30/01/2012 (Borneo Post) - Cooperatives in the state must work with the state and federal government to develop or cultivate idle land in Sabah, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said.
Indonesia\'s First Quarter Crude Palm Oil Output Seen Up
30/01/2012 (Business Recorder) - Crude palm oil (CPO) output in Indonesia, the world's top producer of the vegetable oil, is seen rising 8 percent from a year ago to 4.5 million tonnes in the first quarter, an industry group said on Thursday.
Support The CM\'s Plans For Sabah, Says Dompok
30/01/2012 (Daily Express) - The BN government is doing all it can to ensure that that land owners without titles will get theirs, including those delayed by overlapping applications.
Palm Oil Seen Declining 5.2% by February: Technical Analysis
28/01/2012 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil, used to make everything from candy bars to biofuels, may drop 5.2 percent to 2,971 ringgit ($977) a metric ton next month after it touched a level viewed as significant by some traders, said Maybank-Kim Eng.
EPA Rejects Palm-Oil Based Biodiesel for Renewable Fuels Program
28/01/2012 (Bloomberg) - The Environmental Protection Agency said that biodiesel made from palm oil doesn’t meet the requirements to be added to its renewable fuels program because its greenhouse-gas emissions are too high.
Leaked Data: Palm Biodiesel as Dirty as Fuel From Tar Sands
28/01/2012 (The Guardian) - There are good biofuels and bad biofuels: the trick is telling one from the other. That's particularly difficult when trying to take account of the natural forests and wetlands that can destroyed in the drive to grow some biofuel crops. But we're getting closer, it seems, and palm oil and soy beans now appear utterly unsupportable as a source of biodiesel.
Sinar Mas Claims It’s Part of the Solution When It Comes to Sustainable Palm Oil
28/01/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - Sinar Mas, one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil producers, is spearheading new models of sustainable agriculture in the country in partnership with global giants such as Nestle.
EPA Set To Nix Palm Oil as Advanced Biofuel Feedstock
28/01/2012 (Biofuels Digest) - In Washington, Friends of the Earth relates that the EPA is expected to announce tomorrow that diesel produced from palm oil releases too many greenhouse gas emissions to qualify as a renewable fuel.
