Berita Arkib

25/08/2009 (Bloomberg), New Delhi - India, the world’s biggest buyer of palm oil after China, may produce fewer monsoon-sown oilseeds as dry weather in the main growing areas reduced sowing of peanuts.

23/08/2009 (3News.co.nz) - Dairy farmers are being blamed for the destruction of tropical rain forests. New Zealand cows ate more than 1 million tonnes of palm kernels last year - a quarter of the world's total consumption of the palm oil by-product.

23/08/2009 (Deforestration Watch) - Environmental critics like the Palm Oil Group (POA), Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth (FOE) and the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) have been launching spurious allegations against the palm oil industry accusing it, inter alia, of causing massive deforestation and threatening the existence of the orang utan.

23/08/2009 (3news.co.nz) - Dairy farmers are being blamed for the destruction of tropical rain forests. New Zealand cows ate more than 1 million tonnes of palm kernels last year - a quarter of the world's total consumption of the palm oil by-product.

21/08/2009 (The Star Online), Subang - IJM Plantations Bhd’s palm oil production next year will be much higher than this year though it will not be a double-digit growth, says chief executive officer and managing director Velayuthan Tan.

20/08/2009 (Guardian.co.uk) - They are breaking open the chocolate bars at Auckland zoo in New Zealand this week. The keepers have been running a campaign to get Cadbury to remove palm oil from its chocolate. It's been headline news down there, since Cadbury's recently added the palm oil to make local Dairy Milk "softer".

13/08/2009 (MCOT.Net), Bangkok - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India have signed a long-awaited free trade agreement (FTA) which would take effect next year and increase trade between ASEAN and India to US$60 billion within seven years, according to Thai Commerce Minister Pornthiva Nakasai.

19/08/2009 (China Knowledge) - China National Cereals, Oils&Foodstuffs Corp, the country's largest edible oil and food producer, is planning to set up a soybean-processing plant with an annual capacity of 1.2 million tons in Beibu Gulf Economic Zone in Qinzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

19/08/2009 (CCTV.com) - China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO), the country's largest oil and food producer, is planning to build a soybean-processing plant in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region with a capacity of 1.2 million tons a year.

18/08/2009 (Environmental Leader) - Due to widespread consumer protests, Cadbury New Zealand will eliminate palm oil from its dairy milk chocolate products, reports the New Zealand Herald.

18/08/2009 (Commercial Pressure on Land) - CADBURY'S use of palm oil is only the tip of the iceberg in the product's use in New Zealand - it is reported to be used in as many as one in 10 products on our supermarket shelves.

18/08/2009 (Agriterra Ltd) - Agriterra Ltd, the AIM listed company focussed on the agricultural sector in central and southern Africa, announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire, in principle, Equatorial Biofuels (Guernsey) Limited ('EBF'), the palm oil developer, from Equatorial Palm Oil Plc ('EPO').