Berita Arkib

15/11/2013 (environmentalresearchweb) - Emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from expansion of oil-palm crops in the Brazilian state of Pará could give the resulting biodiesel a higher carbon intensity than petroleum diesel, if policies on forest protection are not enforced. That's according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, US, who have studied the emissions resulting from land conversion over the next 30 years under three different levels of policy enforcement – none, some and strict.

15/11/2013 (Borneo Post) - Tan Chong Industrial Machinery Sdn Bhd (TCIM), a division under Warisan Tan Chong Holdings Bhd (subsidiary of Tan Chong Group), in collaboration with Taiwan Golden Bee Ltd (TGB) has officially unveiled its latest innovation in palm oil fresh fruit bunches (FFB) in-field collection equipment; the Agrocarrier 6×6, here yesterday.

15/11/2013 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Friday.

15/11/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil headed for a weekly advance on speculation that imports from India would increase amid reduced supplies of cooking oils in the second-largest consumer.

15/11/2013 (Jakarta Globe) - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s 11th annual meeting in Medan kicked off this week amid harsh criticism from environmental, human rights and labor groups claiming the organization has failed in its mandate to make sustainable and rights-respecting palm oil the norm.

15/11/2013 (Reuters) - Exports of Malaysian palm oil products over Nov. 1 to 15 fell 4.6 percent to 744,975 tonnes from 781,043 tonnes shipped during Oct. 1 to 15, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said on Friday.

14/11/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose to a near two-week high on Wednesday on prospects that a deadly typhoon in the Philippines would damage crops and halt exports of competing coconut oil, channelling demand to palm oil-based alternatives.

14/11/2013 (Bernama) - Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) continues its foray into the development of innovative products with the extraction of palm-based vitamin E (also known as tocotrienol) through a joint venture with Lipid Venture Sdn Bhd.

14/11/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm imports by India, the world’s largest consumer, probably climbed in October as a delay in the oilseed harvest reduced cooking oil stockpiles to the lowest level in nine months.

14/11/2013 (Business Recorder) - Wednesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.

14/11/2013 (Jakarta Post) - The Amanah Oil Palm Independent Smallholders Association grouping 350 farmers with about 765 hectares of plantations at Pelalawan, Riau province, has just proven that it was not impossible at all to get sustainability certificates as long as the farmers are highly disciplined in implementing best farm practices.

14/11/2013 (Inter Press Service) - The green of the oil palm plantations is unbroken along kilometre after kilometre of red soil, devastated in the past by loggers and ranchers. The oil palm, a sign of alarm for some and of hope for others, is here to stay in the Amazon rainforest state of Pará in the extreme north of this country.