Berita Arkib

24/02/2011 (Bangkok Post) - Consumers are feeling slightly less worried about the palm oil shortage after some leading retailers have begun allowing them to buy more than one bottle of cooking oil per visit.

24/02/2011 (Reuters) - Indonesia will keep its palm oil and cocoa bean export tax for March unchanged from February at 25 percent and 10 percent respectively, a trade ministry official said on Wednesday, confirming an earlier Reuters report.

24/02/2011 (Commodity Online) - The refined soya oil futures witnessed a positive trend in early trade of Tuesday on extended short covering.

23/02/2011 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil gained for the first time in six days as prices of soyabeans and crude oil rallied, while ECM Libra Capital Sdn. forecast an increase in production.

23/02/2011 (Business Times) - Crude palm oil futures prices rose further by adding 0.16 per cent to Rs 564.20 per 10 kg today on sustained buying by traders on the back of firm global trends.

23/02/2011 (Bloomberg) - Soyabean-oil exports jumped to a record in the October-January period as shipments of rival palm oil decreased, Oil World said.

23/02/2011 (Borneo Post Online) - Relevant crude palm oil (CPO) authorities; Oil World and the US Department of Agriculture have both given rather exuberant forecasts for global CPO production this year.

23/02/2011 (The Jakarta Post) - The Association of Indonesian Palm Oil Producers (Gapki) called on the government to speed up negotiations of a free trade agreement with India to protect Indonesia’s palm oil market following last week’s India-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The India-Malaysia FTA would allow Malaysian firms to get better concessions for palm oil and refined products.

23/02/2011 (The Nation) - The National Oil Palm Policy Committee confirmed yesterday that 33 million litres of cooking palm oil would enter the market within 15 days and the government would make a total subsidy allocation of Bt214 million to the Energy Ministry and producers of cooking palm oil.

23/02/2011 (India Infoline Ltd.) - Soyabean prices in domestic market is likely to remain supportive in the coming days due to receding stocks of soya bean in major mandies against strong crushing demand from soya oil millers.

Rejig of import-export rules among proposals.

22/02/2011 (The Star Online) - BY April, the world will possibly be getting its first taste of certified soybean from South America and India an initiative taken by the Roundtable on Responsible Soy Association (RTRS).