Berita Arkib

07/05/2014 (How we made it in Africa) - With a capital injection from global investors, a long-abandoned palm oil plantation and mill in Daru, Sierra Leone, is expected to produce over 5,000 tons of palm oil in 2014, and permanently employ more than 400 people.

07/05/2014 (Reuters) - Indonesia's palm oil output is expected to exceed 28 million tonnes this year, industry groups said on Tuesday, adding any impact from the El Nino weather phenomenon forecast for this year is unlikely to affect production until 2015.

07/05/2014 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

07/05/2014 (RTT News) - New Britain Palm Oil (NBPO.L), a producer of sustainable palm oil, said first-quarter profit before tax, excluding IAS 41, surged to $21.4 million from $4.8 million in the previous year.

07/052014 (StockMarketWire.com) - R.E.A. Holdings' harvest of oil palm fresh fruit bunches totalled 205,847 tonnes for the four-month period to the end of April, compared with 178,385 tonnes a year ago.

07/05/2014 (Daily Times Nigeria) - Vice Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, has said that the Nigerian University would soon establish an oil palm plantation of more than 1,000 hectares.

07/05/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil stockpiles in Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest supplier, probably advanced for a second month as output climbed to the highest level since December.

07/05/2014 (Mongabay.com) - Genting Plantations Bhd's stock price fell by more than two percent after the palm oil company's membership in the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was suspended due to a complaint from the Borneo Rhino Alliance for failing to abide by the body's principles on establishing new plantations, reports The Edge Financial Daily.

05/05/2014 (Borneo Post) - Malaysian palm oil futures fell 2.56 per cent for the week on Friday, following weak comparative vegetable oils although traders expected prices to rebound soon due to high seasonal demand. Futures crude palm oil (FCPO) settled at 2,592 which was down 68 points from 2,660 last Friday. Despite the lack of one day trading due to Labour Day, volume still managed to increase to 135,636 contracts from 134,193 contracts totalled last week. Moreover, open interest based on Thursday increased to 188,981 contracts from 187,970 contracts last Thursday.

05/05/2014 (The Star) - Local palm oil refiners are bracing for the impact of Indonesia’s proposed changes to its palm oil export duty structure.

05/05/2014 (LBO) - Agalawatte Plantations, a unit of Sri Lanka's Mackwoods group said it will expand its oil palm cultivation which had become a key contributor to gross profits in 2013, amid declining rubber prices and weather affected tea.

05/05/2014 (Business Recorder) - Asking prices on the European vegetable oils market eased on Friday following a sharp dip in CBOT soyaoil futures, followed by a slide in Malaysian palm oil futures, both on technical selling. "Business was slow, partly because of the weaker prices, which kept buyers on the defence hoping that they will ease further. The market was also lacklustre because of limited participation as many players had bridged between May Day on Thursday and the weekend," one broker said.