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CPO prices to consolidate at RM4,000 to RM4,300
Mixed forecasts for palm oil at POC2026
CPO Futures Close Higher On Stronger Crude Oil Prices Amid US-Iran Conflict
India’s Cooking Oil Demand Growth to Slow After Record Increase
27/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - Vegetable oil demand growth in India, the biggest buyer after China, may slow from a record pace fueled by an import-tax waiver that pared costs and stoked consumption in Asia’s third-biggest economy.
India-ASEAN FTA one sided
26/09/2009 (MSN) - ASEAN agreement would spell death knell to Kerala’s economy which is centered around Marine products, Spices, Coconuts, coconut products including edible oils, cashew, vanilla, Rubber, Copra, and many other items which have mainstay in the economy of this small state which depends exclusively on the Retail economy with very negligible Gross State Domestic Product from Manufacture.
Drought to Pare India Oilseed Crop, Supporting Palm Oil Imports
25/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the biggest buyer of palm oil after China, may producer fewer monsoon-sown oilseeds as dry weather in the main growing areas reduced sowing of peanuts.
India summer oilseed output to fall in 09/10-trader
25/09/2009 (Reuters) - India's summer-sown oilseed output is likely to fall by more than 4 percent to 13.1 million tonnes in 2009/10 due to a drop in groundnut production, leading trader and respected analyst Govindbhai Patel said on Friday.
India Must Restore Import Duties on Vegetable Oils
25/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the biggest buyer of edible oils after China, may restore duties by March to protect local oilseed farmers from cheaper overseas purchases of cooking fat, said Dorab Mistry, director of Godrej International Ltd.
Egypt\'s Meditrade seeks 30,000 T edible oil
24/09/2009 (Reuters), Cairo - Egypt's Meditrade said on Thursday it was seeking 30,000 tonnes of soyoil and sunflower oil for arrival in November.
Palm oil weighed down by soybean supply outlook
24/09/2009 (The Star Online), Singapore - Palm oil fell the most in five days as the prospect of a record US soybean crop reduced concern over a shortage in global edible oil supplies.
Drought to Keep India’s Cooking Oil Imports at Record
22/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the biggest vegetable oils buyer after China, may import record volumes for a second year after a drought in almost half the country damaged oilseed crops, a processors’ group said.
Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra
24/09/2009 (Mongabay.com) - Of the world's two species of orangutan, a great ape that shares 96 percent of man's genetic makeup, the Sumatran orangutan is considerably more endangered than its cousin in Borneo. Today there are believed to be fewer than 7,000 Sumatran orangutans in the wild, a consequence of the wildlife trade, hunting, and accelerating destruction of their native forest habitat by loggers, small-scale farmers, and agribusiness.
