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20/06/2013 (SpyGhana.com) - An agricultural scientist, Chidi Uba, has urged the Federal Government to invest in palm produce to diversify the economy through exports.

20/06/2013 (Reuters) - India's PEC Ltd issued a tender to import 12,000 tonnes of refined, bleached and deodorised (RBD) palmolein for shipment between June 25 and July 31.

20/06/2013 (Jakarta Post) - The Indonesian market recently experienced a 12 percent pullback from its recent peak ( May 20-June 13) on several factors, such as scaled-back quantitative easing (QE), weakness of the rupiah weakness and higher interest rates.

19/06/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose to near three-month highs on Tuesday as demand for the tropical oil spiked ahead of a Muslim holy festival, raising investors' expectations that stocks in the No.2 producer will ease.

19/06/2013 (AllAfrica.com) - Environmentalists in Uganda have warned international Banks against funding projects in Uganda that are depleting the national forest cover and supporting land grabbing

19/06/2013 (Reuters) - They had hoped to incite debate. Instead, the authors of a report on oil palm development in Cameroon discovered that they had spurred a national strategy.

19/06/2013 (The Guardian Nigeria) - The truism that crude palm oil, just like crude oil and rice, is a political commodity, is to a large extent believable going by the array of activities and interests in the product. The by-product of the commodity, going by its presence in every home attests to this claim, while the impact of a negative development on the sector is felt in most homes and industries.

19/06/2013 (Business Recorder) - Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

19/06/2013 (Hindu Business Recorder) - Edible oils prices edged higher on Tuesday expectation of higher demand ahead of Ramadan next month.

19/06/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oil prices have increased by up to Rs 3 per litre in the retail market as imports have become costlier due to fall in the rupee value and could rise more if the currency further depreciates against dollar.

19/06/2013 (Myiris.com) - CPO June futures at MCX ended up tracking higher export data for Jun 1-15. Ramadan festival ahead in July is aiding in good export of Palm oil. As per cargo surveyor Intertek, total Malaysian Palm oil exports are likely to have risen above 18.5% month-on-month to 7,09,860 Tons from 5,99,300 tons of May's corresponding period.

19/06/2013 (Borneo Post) - IJM Plantations Bhd (IJM Plantations) continues to be disadvantaged by a RM100 per tonne price discount for its crude palm oil (CPO) sold in Sabah but there are positive signs that will be a short-term improvement in CPO prices over the next few months.