Berita Arkib

26/09/2009 (MSN) - ASEAN agreement would spell death knell to Kerala’s economy which is centered around Marine products, Spices, Coconuts, coconut products including edible oils, cashew, vanilla, Rubber, Copra, and many other items which have mainstay in the economy of this small state which depends exclusively on the Retail economy with very negligible Gross State Domestic Product from Manufacture.

25/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the biggest buyer of palm oil after China, may producer fewer monsoon-sown oilseeds as dry weather in the main growing areas reduced sowing of peanuts.

25/09/2009 (Reuters) - India's summer-sown oilseed output is likely to fall by more than 4 percent to 13.1 million tonnes in 2009/10 due to a drop in groundnut production, leading trader and respected analyst Govindbhai Patel said on Friday.

25/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the biggest buyer of edible oils after China, may restore duties by March to protect local oilseed farmers from cheaper overseas purchases of cooking fat, said Dorab Mistry, director of Godrej International Ltd.

24/09/2009 (Reuters), Cairo - Egypt's Meditrade said on Thursday it was seeking 30,000 tonnes of soyoil and sunflower oil for arrival in November.

24/09/2009 (The Star Online), Singapore - Palm oil fell the most in five days as the prospect of a record US soybean crop reduced concern over a shortage in global edible oil supplies.

22/09/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the biggest vegetable oils buyer after China, may import record volumes for a second year after a drought in almost half the country damaged oilseed crops, a processors’ group said.

24/09/2009 (Mongabay.com) - Of the world's two species of orangutan, a great ape that shares 96 percent of man's genetic makeup, the Sumatran orangutan is considerably more endangered than its cousin in Borneo. Today there are believed to be fewer than 7,000 Sumatran orangutans in the wild, a consequence of the wildlife trade, hunting, and accelerating destruction of their native forest habitat by loggers, small-scale farmers, and agribusiness.

23/09/2009 (All African.com) - THE palm oil processing mill on Bugala islands in Kalangala district will be ready mid November, the Bidco managing director, Kodey Rao has said.

23/09/2009 (Reuters) - Indian soyoil futures ended down on Wednesday tracking weakness in Malaysian palm market and on expectations supplies may pick up after the early sown crop is harvested, analysts said.

22/09/2009 (Deforestration Watch) - Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sandy Bauers bemoans the fact that palm oil appears to be in everything. She writes: “The world of suds is quite the soap opera. Trying to sort it out took me into global commerce, biodiesel, and vegetarianism.”

21/09/2009 (RTT News) - Stimulus measures introduced in the last fiscal year to protect the country from the impact of the global economic meltdown would continue till there are signs of clear recovery in recession-hit U.S and Europe, India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters on Saturday.