Berita Arkib

19/07/2011 (Eurasia Review) - Countries that appear to have reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through reforestation may have simply “displaced” the emissions to another country, by increasing their imports of food, timber and wood. A new EU study highlights the need to recognise this ‘loophole’ in ongoing emission targets.

19/07/2011 (Reuters Africa) - Indonesia is forging ahead with its own green palm oil body to regulate and punish firms that do not adhere to environmental standards.

18/07/2011 (Reuters) - The EU will protect existing investment in its $13 billion biodiesel sector even as it acts on new evidence that suggests making the fuel from food crops can do more harm than good in fighting climate change.

18/07/2011 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil prices declined by Rs 3.50 to Rs 481.50 per 10 kg in futures trade today as traders reduced their positions, taking cues from weak global market

18/07/2011 (Helsinki Times) - Finnish government-controlled refiner Neste Oil said in a statement Thursday it would expand its biofuel feedstock base to include jatropha and camelina oils.

18/07/2011 (Biofuels Digest) - In Belgium, Mustapa Mohamed, Malaysia’s Trade and Industry Minister, stated that more transparency was needed in the EU’s deliberations regarding how it intends to determine the environmental impacts of biofuels and whether or not to limit biofuel imports produced on either farmland or former forests.

18/07/2011 (Platts) - Petrobras Biofuels marked three years of existence Friday with a 10-fold increase in production, with annual capacity of 1.7 billions liter/year, up from 170 million liters in 2008, the company said Friday.

18/07/2011 (Bloomberg) - A delegation of Chinese agricultural engineers and entrepreneurs decided to invest at least 1 billion CFA Francs ($2.15 million) in Benin’s palm oil industry after a visit to the western African nation.

18/07/2011 (Borneo Post) - The regulations on minimum wages for plantation workers would likely be enforced either end of this year or early next year, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said yesterday.

18/07/2011 (Reuters) - New York-based agricultural company Herakles Farms will develop some 60,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in Cameroon's south-west region, project manager Delilah Rothenberg told Reuters in an interview.

18/07/2011 (Daily Star) - Consumers feel the pinch of soaring prices of essentials and vegetables nearly two weeks ahead of the Ramadan.

18/07/2011 (Borneo Post) - The government, through its replanting assistance programme under the National Key Economic Area (NKEA), is confident that Malaysia will soon be among the top crude palm oil (CPO) producers in the world.