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A delicate balance for biodiesel mandate
Can palm biodiesel provide quick relief for Malaysia amid Iran war?
Malaysia plans phased expansion of biodiesel programme, minister says
CPO Futures Close Slightly Higher, Tracking Gains In Soybean Oil Prices
RM9mil palm oil hijacked
21/04/2009 (The Daily Express), Kota Kinabalu - About RM9 million worth of palm oil was siphoned away while on transit from the processing plants to the ports in the East Coast of Sabah last year.
Exhibition on coconut and palm oil trees opens in Kumasi
22/04/2009 (Ghana Web), Kumasi - The Kumasi centre of Alliance Francaise, in collaboration with the French Embassy and CIRAD, an international agronomic institute, has held an exhibition on coconut and the oil palm tree in Kumasi.
The problem with palm
21/04/2009 (Mother Nature Network (MNN)) - As fears of global warming continue to rise with gas prices, both corporations and environmentalists are looking into alternative fuel sources. Now, businesses abroad plan to make biodiesel from palm oil, a substance found in common household items like cookies, shampoo, and margarine. Toyota Motor Corp. announced in May that it will partner with Japan’s Nippon Oil Corp. to develop biodiesel from palm oil, and the Malaysian government approved 54 projects this year alone to create B100, a biodiesel based from 100 percent palm oil, the country’s main export.
FACTBOX-\"Green\" palm oil in high street shops
21/04/2009 (Reuters) - A drive to improve the green credentials of palm oil, used in foods and cosmetics but tainted for some by links to deforestation, could make it too expensive for shoppers and may anyway be of limited environmental benefit.
India\'s edible oil imports may fall by 12 pc in 2009-10
21/04/2009 (Indopia), New Delhi - India & a poss edible oil imports are projected to decline by 12 per cent to around 6 million tonnes in 2009-10 season due to an expected rise in domestic output and large carry-over stocks, the USDA said in a report.
Feb palm oil production slumps
21/04/2009 (Solomon Star) - PALM Oil production for February has dropped by 11 percent, to reverse the 9% growth in the previous months.
Palm oil thieves in Sabah having a field-day
21/04/2009 (NST Online), Kota Kinabalu - Palm oil thefts in Sabah have caused losses of up to RM9 million, with syndicates stealing up to 3,000 tonnes of oil last year.
Speculative edible oil imports to hit farmers
21/04/2009 (Business Standard) - All kinds of motives can be attributed as to why the trade went all out to import 3.434 million tonnes of edible oil in the first five months of the 2008-09 oil year (November to October). Imports jumped by 1.5 million tonnes over the same period last year, confounding all the stakeholders.
Unilever calls for ban on counterfeit products
20/04/2009 (Joy Online) - Mr. Charles Cofie, Chief Executive Office of Unilever has reiterated his call on the Ghana Standard Board (GSB) and other authorities to control the influx of counterfeit products onto the Ghanaian market.
