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02/10/2009 (Manila Bulletin), Butuan City - Palm oil industry stakeholders are eyeing some 45,500 hectares of land in the Caraga Region to increase their production in the next five years, it was learned Friday.

02/10/2009 (Solomon Star) - THE Government says it will recruit four project managers as part of its commitment to boost oil palm plantations in the country.

01/10/2009 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Palm oil, which accounts for 60% of the global vegetable oil trade, has come under fire from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. The non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are pressuring processors and consumers to boycott the oil and European Union (EU) governments to block its import based on the contention that palm oil damages the environment.

29/09/2009 (Bernama), Sibu - Another Sarawak timber and oil palm company has invested heavily in the oil palm industry.

29/09/2009 (Daily Times), Karachi - Country’s palm oil products import bill for September-October 2009 will increase by around 10 percent on higher demand and rupee-dollar parity, importers said Monday.

28/09/2009 (Environmental Leader) - Seventh Generation aims to exclusively use certified sustainable palm oil for its household products by 2012.

29/09/2009 (Bernama), Bangkok - The anti-palm oil campaign by environmental groups is unlikely to have immediate effect on leading Malaysian and Indonesian exporters but could lead to trade and aid restrictions in future, the crop's pro-campaign group said Tuesday.

29/09/2009 (The Daily Star) - Palm Olin (locally we call palm oil) is a low cost edible oil. It is very suitable for human consumption from health point of view. Its yield per hector is much higher than all other known vegetables edible oils. The palm tree originated from the African continent. But at present Malaysia and Indonesia produce the largest quantity of palm oil systematically and export it to different countries. Developed high yield variety of plants when cultivated in a scientific way, discovered by research and development, has produced even a few tons of oil from a hector of land in a year in Malaysia. It has been proved that palm oil tree plantation is suitable for Bangladesh soil and climate. In the last decade Bangladesh imported more than one million tonnes of palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia annually and the quantity is increasing with increase in per capita income over here. We have been consuming palm oil in the name of soybean oil as the traders sell palm oil as soybean oil. We knowthat palm oil is suitable for health and it also increases taste of food items.

28/09/2009 (Online Opinion) - In a major development, India and the ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Bangkok on August 13, 2009. The FTA, restricted only to goods, is India’s first with a trade bloc and will cover 11 countries with a combined Gross Domestic Product of over US$2 trillion.

30/09/2009 (The Green Girl) - During the approximately 8 hours we spent driving through Costa Rica we couldn’t help but notice the thousands of acres of perfectly aligned palm trees that seemed to spring up out of nowhere. I had read and heard about palm oil plantations devastating our endangered tropical ecosystems but these trees looked so natural in their full grown state that it was hard to imagine just how much pain they had caused their environment.

28/09/2009 (Bloomberg) — Palm oil, the world’s most consumed vegetable oil, must drop to 2,200 ringgit ($642) a metric ton for demand to rebound amid a near-record stockpile, said Dorab Mistry, director at Godrej International Ltd.

27/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - Vegetable oil demand growth in India, the biggest buyer after China, may slow from a record pace fueled by an import-tax waiver that pared costs and stoked consumption in Asia’s third-biggest economy.