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30/06/2009 (The Jakarta Post) - Conservation campaigners in Britain are calling on supermarkets to stop selling products that contain palm oil harvested from environmentally sensitive areas in Indonesia.

30/06/2009 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - India is once again planning to beef up its public stocks of imported cooking oil amid concerns that a weak monsoon could affect sowing of key oilseeds and force prices to creep up in the coming festival months.

30/06/2009 (The Economic Times) - India is planning to again build up its public stocks of imported cooking oil as prices are expected to creep up in the coming festival months. The oil would be sold in one-litre packs through ration shops to families below the poverty line.

28/06/2009 (The Northern Star) - A CAMPAIGN which started in Ballina and Lismore to lobby KFC to stop using palm oil has paid off.

27/06/2009 (The Star Online) - AMID the industry’s quest for sustainability and environmental protection, oil palm planters from Malaysia and Indonesia have been urged not to yield to the demands of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and environmentalists who are targeting deforestation.

26/06/2009 (Commodity Online), Kuala Lumpur / Brussels - The volume of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil imported in European Union markets have increased significantly as producers in South East Asia comply with the Roundtable on Sustainable PalmOil, the multi-stakeholder association working to make all palm oil production sustainable.

26/06/09 (The Economic Times), Mumbai - The vegetable oil trade has asked the government to reimpose custom duty on edible oils in the budget to check the significant rise in imports. This will restrict a sharp fall in local oilseed prices and encourage farmers to expand area of the crop under kharif cultivation.

26/06/2009 (CRIENGLISH.com) - Indonesia is scheduled to host the International Oil Palm Conference (IOPC) in Yogyakarta from June 1 to 3 next year, the conference organizer chairman said here on Wednesday.

25/06/2009 (The Economic Times), Mumbai - Madhya Pradesh-based edible oil manufacturing company, KS Oils has acquired an additional 35,000 acres of land in Indonesia for oil palm plantations. With this acquisition, the total land acquired by the company stands at 85,000 acres and it plans to invest Rs 750 crore over a period of three year in palm plantations and production of crude palm oil there.

25/06/2009 (NZ Herald), Tripa - Perched halfway up a tree on the Seumayan River, a young orang-utan lounges on a branch, eating fruit.

24/06/2009 (Orang Utan Centre) - A famous British company, Jardines, is profiting as the lowland forest – which shelters the few remaining orangutans – is razed to make way for massive palm oil plantations, reports Kathy Marks in Tripa, Indonesia.

24/06/2009 (Farmers Guardian) - IT takes 200 to 250 litres of crude oil to manufacture a typical large farm tyre, but Goodyear has been looking at other materials to decouple tyre prices from mineral oil.