Berita Arkib

03/06/2009 (Reuters) - Western countries are using climate change as an excuse to constrain palm oil production in Asia because it competes with Western business interests, Indonesia's palm oil industry chief said on Wednesday.

03/06/2009 (Palm Oil HQ) - Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (Gapki) chairman Joefly J Bachroeny predicts Indonesia`s crude palm oil (CPO) production will increase 5-10 percent as harvest time in the country will begin soon.

02/06/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the world’s biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, may slow the pace of imports after domestic stockpiles surged on record purchases, a trader said.

01/06/2009 (Developing8.org) - Biodiesel producer Mission Biotechnologies Sdn Bhd became the first Asian company to receive the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC), thus securing export access into the European Union (EU). A subsidiary of Australia-based Mission NewEnergy Ltd, Mission Biotechnologies has invested about RM90mil to operate an 100,000-tonne per year biodiesel plant in Kuantan.

01/06/2009 (The Economic Times, India) - It was a healthy 2007-08 for the vegetable oil industry, but the downturn in the following year caused due to a fall in consumer demand and high input prices, hurt financials. However, today, the industry can already smell the aroma of recovery this year with rising consumer demand and its increased thrust on branded and value-added space yielding positive results.

27/05/2009 (Business Standard, India) - The country’s dependence on global edible oil market is likely to rise 20 per cent this year due to lower domestic output and rising consumption following a drastic price slump.

31/05/2009 (The Times Of India, India), Chennai - The state health department will study the levels of trans fat in edible oils in an attempt to standardise levels, as is done in Denmark, health secretary V K Subburaj said here on Saturday.

26/05/2009 (The Jakarta Post) - Despite Indonesia being the world’s largest producer of crude palm oil (CPO), its competitiveness in overseas markets is being eroded due in part to burdensome levies – both by central and local governments – and to poor infrastructure.

25/05/2009 (Bernama), Sandakan - The dependence on foreign labour has resulted in high operations cost for the country's palm oil industry, says Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.

25/05/2009 (Manila Standard Today) - Any stranger or first-time visitor to Laguna and Quezon will be instantly awed at the sight of endless rows of tall and lush coconut trees which dominate the landscape. But the thick tree cover all around seems to camouflage the acute ills that beset the coconut industry in these provinces and the entire country.

25/05/2009 (Bernama), Kuching - Felcra will develop another 11,000 hectares of land in Sarawak for oil palm cultivation by 2010, its chairman Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman said here today.

25/05/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - There is no plan to reduce the current biodiesel mandate of five percent despite the high feedstock cost, Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Datuk Hamzah Zainudin said today.