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06/07/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - Andhra Pradesh leads in oil palm cultivation in the country, but till now only the south coastal districts of East Godavari, West Godavari and Krishna were in the forefront. Now farmers in the north coastal districts are also taking to cultivation of the crop on a large scale. The Union Government is offering substantial subsidy on oil palm cultivation to reduce edible oil imports.

06/07/2012 (Ghana) - More than 2,600 farmers in the Western Region have been provided with 1.4 million oil palm seedlings to wean them off illegal mining activities which tend to degrade the environment and pollute water bodies. The move is part of a sustainable livelihood empowerment programme.The project, which was spearheaded by the Minerals Commission in the Western Region, covers areas such as Wassa Amoansa, Bogoso, Nsuta Nbease, Huni Valley and Haiman.

06/07/2012 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 117,068 tonnes of cargo comprising 79,239 tonnes of import cargo and 37,829 tonnes of export cargo including 3,793 loaded & empty containers during last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Thursday. The total import cargo of 79,239 tonnes comprised of 24,376 tonnes of containerised cargo; 863 tonnes of general cargo; 11,300 tonnes of coal and 42,700 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.

06/07/2012 (Bernama) - Since the launch of the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) in 2008 and as of June 30 this year, Sabah has attracted planned and committed investments of RM112.8 billion.

06/07/2012 (Creamer Media's Engineering News) - Community-scale production of biodiesel from used oils and fats can effectively provide a high-value product to supplement local fuel use and form an additional revenue stream for farmers who produce oil-yielding crops, says UK biofuels company Green Fuels founder and CEO James Hygate.

06/07/2012 (Bernama) - The Government has identified the booming oil palm industry as one of the prime sectors to stimulate the economy and propel Malaysia into a high-income nation by 2020, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said Thursday.

06/07/2012 (B92) - The Indonesian government reached a decision on Thursday by which Serbia will become distribution center for Indonesian strategic raw materials.

05/07/2012 (Bloomberg) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures edged lower on Thursday, off a five-week high, as traders booked profits from a weather-fuelled rally that had boosted prices by more than 3 percent this week.

05/07/2012 (SBWIRE) - An international coalition of non profit groups and online activists Forest Activists United issued a rebuttal to a press release from Herakles Farms today. The original press release issued by Herakles Farms , a US company that owns SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon ( SGSOC ) spoke in glowing terms of its proposed palm oil plantation in Cameroon.

05/07/2012 (Nature.com) - Palm oil was once touted as a social and environmental panacea — a sustainable food crop, a biofuel that could help to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and a route out of poverty for small-scale farmers. In recent years, however, a growing body of research has questioned those credentials, presenting evidence that palm-oil farming can cause damaging deforestation and reduce biodiversity, and that the oil’s use as a biofuel offers only marginal benefits for mitigating climate change.

05/07/2012 (The Hindu) - Whatever the crop, it is the price that matters to farmers. “Getting a good price is essential for a farmer and especially for those growing crops like oilpalm, the price to a large extent depends on the international market over which we may not have much control.

05/07/2012 (Reuters) - Ivorian natural palm oil producer Palmci said on Wednesday that net result for the first quarter of 2012 was down 45 percent to 9.87 billion CFA francs ($18.82 million) from 17.91 billion in the same period last year.