Berita Arkib

23/05/2011 (Hindu Business Line) - Two and a half years ago, Mr Kumarasamy Reddiar of Vikaravandi village in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district decided to cultivate oil palm. He chose to replace paddy, casuarina and sugarcane and today, he gets 20 tonnes of fresh fruit bunch (FFB) of oil palm a year on the nine hectares.

23/05/2011 (Food Ingredients First) - Forest fragmentation driven by demand for palm oil is having a catastrophic effect on multiple levels of biodiversity, scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered.

23/05/2011 (Jakarta Globe) - Although it continues to fluctuate, the average price of palm oil this year will remain higher than last year as it moves toward $900 per metric ton, an industry association says.

23/05/2011 (IPP Media) - Henry Oranya, District commissioner for Mkuranga in Coast Region, has invited foreigners to invest in palm oil production in Rufiji District as a way of fending off edible oil imports to Tanzania.

23/05/2011 (The Star) - BY 2015, Felda Global Group, the commercial entity of Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) is envisaged to emerge as a dynamic agri-business and multinational organisation with strong upstream and downstream activities, a well-recognised brand, diversified activities and a leadership especially in agri-based new technologies.

23/05/2011 (The Star) - Rising de-mand for oil palm fibre in China should spur millers in Sabah to look at using their own waste products to generate money, said state Industrial Development Datuk Raymond Tan.

20/05/2011 (Economic Times) - India, the world's biggest user of cooking oil after China, will assure higher oilseeds prices for farmers, helping them boost output of soyabeans and peanuts and potentially reducing imports of palm oil.

20/05/2011 (Bernama) - Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok will make a four-day working visit to the United States from Sunday to promote palm oil and rubber.

20/05/2011 (Reuters) - Astra Agro Lestari , Indonesia's largest listed plantation firm, expect its crude palm oil (CPO) production to grow more than 10 percent this year, due to maturing plantations, the company said on Thursday.

20/05/2011 (Economic Times) - Crude palm oil prices went up by Rs 3.40 to Rs 527.90 per 10 kg in futures trade today as speculators enlarged their positions on the back of firming global trend.

20/05/2011 (The Star) - The Government is set to implement the B5 biodiesel programme next month starting with Putrajaya, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said.

20/05/2011 (Reuters) - Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby said on Thursday it plans to invest about $3.1billion over 15 years in its Liberian oil palm plantation project and expects production to begin by 2015.