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Palm Oil Stakeholders Need To Navigate Market Dynamics To Ensure Continued Growth
CPO futures close lower amid concerns over B40 biodiesel implementation
CPO market to trade in yo-yo mode next week amid holiday, production concerns
MSPO 2.0: Experts see stronger global position for Malaysian palm oil
Researchers Hope to Unlock Oil Palm's Potential by Mapping Genome
30/11/2005 (Financial Express) - Genome-mapping through PCR-based (Polymerase chain reaction) molecular markers could unlock R&D in plantation crops like cocoa, arecanut, oil palm, acacia and cinchona too, according to Dr K V Peter, Vice Chancellor, Kerala Agricultural University.
Indonesia to Increase Palm Oil Production
29/11/05 (Thai Press Reports) -Indonesia, the largest country in Southeast Asia, is likely to surpass Malaysia as the world's biggest palm oil producer.
Brazil Could Lead World in Biodiesel, Says President Lula
21/11/05 RIO DE JANEIRO (Agence France-Presse) - Brazil could lead the world toward a revolution in biodiesel and become a world energy leader, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday.
Canadian Canola Industry Seeking to Enter India's Edible Oil Market
21/11/05 Mumbai (Business Line) - The vegetable oil import basket of the world's second largest importer, India, is dominated by the palm group of oils followed by soyabean oil, to the virtual exclusion of all other oils save a small quantity of sunflower oil and coconut oil
Indonesia's Plans for Borneo Palm Oil Plantation Pits Environment Against Economics
22/11/2005 (Philadelphia Inquirer) - In the heart of Borneo, home to one of the world's last remaining expanses of intact rain forest, Hermas Rintik Maring, an avid conservationist, marvels at the life within the vast canopies of jungle green that for centuries have made this tropical island vital to the health of the region. At the same time, he says he fears this pristine forest could fall to the whine of chain saws and the rumble of bulldozers clearing land for what has been billed as the world's largest palm oil plantation.
Sustainable Palm Oil Principles For Adoption At Roundtable
22/11/05 SINGAPORE, (Bernama) -- An eight-point principles and criteria (P&C) that seeks to implement the best approach to sustainable palm oil production globally has been tabled for formal adoption at the Third Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), here Tuesday.
All signs point to higher crude palm oil price
21/11/05 (The Star) - THE price of crude palm oil (CPO), which is showing no sign of weakening, has the potential to register further increase as it enters into the new price cycle by year-end.
Indian Chamber Asks Govt To Reduce Import Duty On Crude Palm Oil
21/11/05 NEW DELHI, (Asia Pulse) - Pointing that duty free imports of vanaspati were hitting the domestic industry hard, PHDCCI on Friday asked the Government to reduce the import duty on crude palm oil to 20 per cent from current 81.9 per cent.
MPOB Plans Strategies to Increase Palm Oil Production
22/11/05 SEREMBAN (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has lined up several strategies to raise the production of palm oil from two sectors, namely its plantation agencies and smallholders in the country.
