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16/03/2015 (The Star) - CIMB Equities Research expressed surprised by Indonesia’s plan to raise the country’s biodiesel blend from 10% to 15% as early as next week.

16/03/2015 (Bernama) - The crude palm oil (CPO) export tax will be raised to 4.5 per cent from April 2015, says Royal Customs Department.

16/03/2015 (Bernama) - The 4.5 per cent export duty on Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) for April 2015, has taken into account various studies that suggest the tax regime needs to be restored, says Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas.

13/03/2015 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

13/03/2015 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures inched down 1.4 percent on Thursday, reversing gains clocked in the previous session to fall six out of seven days, as theringgit advanced and investors fretted about waning demand for the tropical oil.

13/03/2015 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 165,795 tonnes of cargo comprising 135,618 tonnes of import cargo and 30,177 tonnes of export cargo including 5,072 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Thursday. The total import cargo of 135,618 tonnes comprised of 51,158 tonnes of containerised cargo; 380 tonnes of general cargo; 2,464 tonnes of soyabean meal and 81,616 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.

13/03/2015 (Hindu Business Line) - The edible oils market witnessed a dull trading on the back of volatile currency, weak palm-soya oil futures amid slack physical demand. On the Bombay Commodity Exchange, palmolein declined by ₹1 and groundnut oil rose by ₹5 for 10 kg.

13/03/2015 (AllAfrica.com) - The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development was in Kumba, South West Region recently.

13/03/2015 (Business Standard) - Groundnut oil prices firmed up by Rs 200 per quintal in an otherwise steady wholesale oils and oilseeds market today following upsurge in demand against tight supplies from producing belts.

13/03/2015 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An investigation into one of Indonesia's major palm oil producer's plans to expand its plantations has turned into a test case for agribusiness firms eyeing indigenous land and campaigners fighting for the land rights of local people.

13/03/2015 (Zine Report) - The clearing of tropical forests to plant oil palm trees releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas fueling climate change. Converting diverse forest ecosystems to these single-crop “monocultures” degrades or destroys wildlife habitat. Oil palm plantations also have been associated with dangerous and abusive conditions for laborers.

13/03/2015 (Bloomberg) - The sprawling palm oil industry has long been a destroyer of rain forests and tormentor of endangered species across Southeast Asia, to hear environmental groups tell it. And if one executive embodied this $50 billion business, it was Kuok Khoon Hong, a 65-year-old Singaporean commodities magnate.