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13/04/2011 (Korea IT Times) - The South Korean palm oil market growth may take a boost given palm oil's versatility and attributes utilised for food and non-food purposes. "I am optimistic that palm oil used in households, oleochemical companies and South Korea's biodiesel industry will continue to increase," said Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Tan Sri Bernard Dompok here Tuesday.

12/04/2011 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil may drop to less than 3,000 ringgit a metric ton as output expands, before prices rally on growing use of soybean oil in U.S. biodiesel, Dorab Mistry, director of Godrej International Ltd., said today.

However, downcycle is expected in the second half of the year.

12/04/2011 (Agrimoney.com) - Firm export data helped steady palm oil prices on Monday, despite regulators saying that stocks of the vegetable oil in Malaysia had hit a three-month top, boosted by a bigger-than-expected recovery in production.

12/04/2011 (The Star) - While IOI Corp is busy clearing its name following a sanction by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) on allegations of land disputes and deforestation charges in Sarawak, environmental NGOs are equally hard at work to gain the support from major palm oil buyers to suspend their purchases from the plantation giant.

12/04/2011 (Business Times) - OSK Investment Bank Bhd says that it has never at any material time, offered to the public, the Futures Crude Palm Oil (FCPO) investment scheme or any similar such financial arrangement.

12/04/2011 (Neiker-Tecnalia (the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development) is carrying out research, the objective of which is to improve oil palm crops through genetic enhancement. Its Biotechnology Department is currently working on the development of the technique known as Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS) with the goal of optimising the production and quality of this crop. This technique enables detecting new genes which have important characteristics, such as resistance to diseases, greater production of best quality oil and better adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress.

12/04/2011 (Jakarta Post) - The Jakarta Composite Index posted a modest 0.1 percent gain on Monday, advancing for a fourth successive day on the back of rising sentiment.

11/04/2011 (The Star) - IT'S perfectly understandable if IOI Corp Bhd doesn't see things the same way, but the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil's (RSPO) handling of complaints against the listed Malaysian plantation player may well turn out to be a watershed in the palm oil industry's long-standing efforts to convince the rest of the world that most of the major oil palm growers are serious about addressing sustainability issues.

11/04/2011 (The Star) - Over the years, the agriculture sector has steadily become an important contributor to Malaysia's GDP, employment, export revenue, export tax and duty, as well as the economic and rural development.

11/04/2011 (Awoko) - Parliament yesterday ratified a Memorandum of Understanding and agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone, Gold Tree (S.L) Limited and Gold Tree Holdings for a ten-year Palm Oil Project which is geared towards creating up to 3,000 jobs upon its implementation.

11/04/2011 (The Star) - Thanks to good foresight, careful planning and precise execution, K.S. Lim, a 60-year-old agriculturist based in Segamat, Johor, has been laughing all the way to the bank.