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11/10/2011 (Business Standard) - In a move to rationalise the Centrally Sponsored Schemes under the agriculture ministry, the government will bring down the number of such schemes to just eight from the current 52 in the 12th Five Year Plan that starts from the next financial year.

10/10/2011 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil output in Malaysia, the second-largest producer, may climb for a second year to a record in 2012 on rising yields and “speedy” replanting of aging trees, according to the nation’s finance ministry.

10/10/2011 (Daily Times) - India’s plan to hike a domestic levy on refined palm oil, designed to protect its refiners from cheaper exports by top palm oil producer Indonesia, will backfire in the absence of rival suppliers to meet the appetite of the south Asian nation.

10/10/2011 (The Star) - Indonesia’s palm oil growers pulling out of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has grave implications if Malaysia responds to unite producers.

10/10/2011 (The Star) - Felda Global Group has been given the green light by the Government to list its commercial unit, Felda Global Ventures Holdings Sdn Bhd, on Bursa Malaysia by the middle of next year.

10/10/2011 (Bangkok Post) - The proportion of palm-derived biofuel in biodiesel is being increased to 5% from 4% in order to help absorb a crude palm oil surplus, the Energy Ministry said yesterday.

10/10/2011 (The Star) - Malaysia's total exports for August registered a growth of 10.9% year-on-year to RM58.56bil, which is higher than the median 7.9% estimate of a Bloomberg economists' forecast.

10/10/2011 (The Guardian) - Union of Concerned Scientists warns that the EU view that biofuels are carbon neutral is 'not supported by the science'.

10/10/2011 (Reuters) - Europe's biodiesel industry rejected the findings of a draft EU study showing that the cultivation of rapeseed to make road transport fuels is worse for the climate than using conventional diesel.

10/10/2011 (Jakarta Post) - Swiss-based food giant Nestle SA plans to invest US$200 million in a cacao plantation in Indonesia because it believes the industry still offers promise for years to come, a businessman says.

10/10/2011 (Reuters) - Biodiesel output in Italy, a major producer in the European Union, is expected to fall some 18 percent to about 600,000 tonnes this year hit by surging inflows of cheaper imports, a senior industry official said on Friday.

10/10/2011 (The Wall Street Journal) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak unveiled a government spending plan for 2012 that pledged cash handouts and more benefits for ordinary Malaysians, while also shoring up the country's finances and reining in its budget deficit at a time of global economic uncertainty.