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02/03/2012 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - The Netherlands will be pushing for the lifting of European Union (EU) import duties on sustainably produced crude palm oil at the European Commission in Brussels.

02/03/2012 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - With surge in import of refined palm oil, edible oil processors have urged finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to hike import duty on the commodity to 16.5 per cent from the existing 7.5 per cent to save the domestic industry from closing down.

02/03/2012 (The Jakarta Post) - State-owned largest lender PT Bank Mandiri Tbk signed on Thursday deals to disburse loans to cooperatives of oil palm farmers, in a move to boost the amount of credit disbursed to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) this year.

01/03/2012 (Bloomberg) - Cooking-oil imports by India, the biggest palm oil buyer, will climb as much as 12 percent to a record after dry weather and excessive rain curbed oilseed crops, according to GG Patel & Nikhil Research Co.

01/03/2012 (Asia One News), Petaling Jaya - The analysis of 64 samples of plastic-packed 1kg cooking oil conducted by the Oils and Fats Technology Centre of Malay-sian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) showed that they were of good quality.

29/02/2012 (Lankan Business Online), New Delhi - Global production of green palm oil is expected to surge sharply in the coming years on likely rise in demand from India and China, the world's biggest consumers of cooking oils.

29/02/2012 (Forests Blog, Center for International Forestry Research) - Malaysian scientists now have the ability to trace for high oil-yielding genes in the palm oil plant, allowing them to create “designer palms” with the capacity to control the amount and type of oil being produced.

29/02/2012 (Reuters) - Singaporean palm oil firm Golden Agri Resources plans to nearly double its Indonesian refining capacity to 2.6 million tonnes over the next two years as it exploits the country's lower export taxes for refined edible oils, a top official said.

29/02/2012 (Business Recorder) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures touched a new eight-and-a-half month high on Tuesday, buoyed by improving demand prospects, but gains were limited as investors worried about the risks to global growth from high oil prices.

29/02/2012 (Borneo Post) - Sabah has remained the country’s biggest crude palm oil (CPO) producer, recording an output of 5.84 million tonnes last year.

29/02/2012 (TEMPO Interactive) - Ali Fathan, management advisor for oil palm plantation company Barat Selatan Makmur Investindo, said that the company is planning to leave Mesuji after twice being targeted by raging residences. “We have tried to convince them to not leave,” Ali said on Monday.

29/02/2012 (Borneo Post) - Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok has directed the Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB) to come up with more courses suitable for graduates interested to continue their studies in fields related to plantations.