Berita Arkib

14/04/2010 (Reuters), Jakarta - A decision by top palm oil buyers to halt purchases from Indonesia is unlikely to affect palm oil exports from Southeast Asia's biggest economy given strong demand, an industry official said on Wednesday.

14/04/2010 (VIVAnews) - Rajawali Group reportedly intends to run a crude palm oil (CPO) commodity business after laying off its shares in PT Semen Gresik Tbk.

15/04/2010 (All Africa), Lagos — Fresh oil from palm fruit is traditionally used in eating roasted yam or plantain in Nigeria especially in farms after a hard day's job.

15/04/2010 (Joy Online) - A District Magistrate's Court at Kade on Wednesday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a farmer for stealing 15 gallons of palm oil.

15/04/2010 (Bernama) - The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities has no plan yet to make "sugar palms" or palm trees which produce sugar, as a new commodity source.

14/04/2010 (WWF Website) - More sustainably produced palm oil is being purchased than ever before, according to the latest figures from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

14/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil was little changed, tracking soybean oil prices, on expectations of a record oilseed harvest in South America.

14/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - A revaluation of the yuan that’s too rapid could curb income growth and slow the expansion of food demand in the world’s most populous nation, according to a Rabobank Groep NV analyst.

14/04/2010 (The Jakarta Post) - The forestry ministry dropped its controversial initiative to classify oil palm plantations as forests after strong protests from environmental activists on fears that it would speed up deforestation.

14/04/2010 (Food Ingredient First) - Lipidos Santiga (Lipsa) has noted that it obtained the certification to supply sustainable palm and palm kernel oils in the categories of Segregation and Mass Balance as per the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) criteria on December 8, 2009.

13/04/2010 (Environmental Leader) - Environmentalists are criticizing Chelveston Renewable Energy in the UK for planning to burn tropical palm oil to generate electricity, reports Times Online. The renewable energy company recently received permission to build a bio-oil power station on a former RAF bomber base.

13/04/2010 (The Star Online) - MUCH hope has been placed on increasing the mechanisation of palm fruit harvesting techniques and reducing foreign labour in the country’s robust oil palm industry.