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Malaysia's palm oil stocks hit 8-month high in May as output jumps
FGV may see earnings fall over 50pct annually from expanded SST
CIMB: India's duty cut, low stocks seen boosting Malaysian palm oil exports
Palm Oil Market Set for Strong Growth to USD 106.5 Billion by 2032 Amid Rising Sustainability Focus
Brazil Has Increased Its Cropland But Will Harvest
8/19/2005 (EFE News Service) - Although Brazil slightly increased itscropland this year, its grain harvest will wind up being almost 5 percentless than in 2004, mainly due to adverse weather factors, officials saidThursday.
Chin refutes Indonesian claim
19/08/05 PUTRAJAYA, - Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister DatukPeter Chin has refuted claims by Indonesia that satellite pictures of Riaushowed hotspots in areas belonging to Malaysian-linked plantations."Satellite pictures are taken at a very high altitude, so how can theypinpoint for certain that those areas are Malaysian oil palm estates?"Chin said in response to news reports today on Indonesia’s insistence thatit has evidence of open burning by Malaysian-linked plantations inSumatra.
Felda buying more land overseas
22/08/05 (The Star) - PLANTATION giant, the Felda group, is believed to beon an acquisition trail for more plantation land bank abroad.
Food makers look to replace soybean oil with palm
21/08/ 2005 Washington, D.C. (DesMoinesRegister.com) - A food ingredientthat got a reputation in the 1980s as bad for the heart is coming back tocookies and other products.
Land conversion threatens food production, farmers
22/08/2005 KORONADAL CITY (SunStar)-- A group of farmers here has urgedthe City Government to set measures that would safeguard the city's primeagricultural lands from land use and crop conversions, especially for theongoing oil palm development project in the area.
New Collective Agreement For Oil Palm Sector Worke
18/08/05 PUTRAJAYA, (Bernama) -- Some 44,000 workers in the oil palmindustry stand to benefit from improvements in a new collective agreement(CA) inked, Thursday with their employers, including a "safety net" in theform of a guaranteed minimum payment of RM350 per month.
Not all oil is bad, says SA researcher
18/08/ 2005 (Independent Online) - The healthy or not oil debate has takena new turn - local research has turned up a tropical oil that appears tonot only protect against the consequences of a heart attack, but is also anatural source of vitamin A.
Palm oil imports to increase by 35% during Sept-De
16/08/05 KARACHI (Daily Times) - Palm oil import is expected to increaseby 30 percent to 40 percent amid high domestic demand and a bearish worldoil price outlook, importers and dealers said on Tuesday.
Palm oil is not a saturated fat, say scientists
12/08/05 (The Hindu) - HEALTH and nutrition issues relating to vegetableoils in general and palm oil in particular have assumed importance inrecent years. In many of the developed economies where obesity is aserious health issue, consumption of fats has engaged the attention ofnutritionists, consumers and manufacturers.