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02/05/2009 (The Independent) - It\'s an invisible ingredient, really, palm oil. You won\'t find it listed on your margarine, your bread, your biscuits or your KitKat. It\'s there though, under \"vegetable oil\". And its impact, 7,000 miles away, is very visible indeed.

01/05/2009 (All Africa), Monrovia - Sime Darby, a Malaysian Company and the Liberian Government yesterday signed a little over USD800 million major concession agreement for the cultivation of oil palm and rubber in three stern counties of Liberia.

01/05/2009 (Jakarta Globe) - The nation’s exports increased in March on a monthly basis after falling for seven consecutive months, as a decrease in manufacturing shipments was offset by an uptick in commodities.

01/05/2009 (SHARECAST), London - Palm oil producer R.E.A. Holdings said the crop of oil palm fresh fruit bunches harvested to the end of April was marginally below the budgeted level but ahead of the previous year’s level.

01/05/2009 (The Star Online) - KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA), which represents the country’s plantation industry, will appeal to the Government to consider repealing the Windfall Profit Levy Act 1998.

28/04/2009 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur/Jakarta - Growing economic pain may increasingly force consumers to turn to palm oil, one of the cheapest cooking oils, a move that could scupper nascent plans to slow deforestation in Southeast Asia.

28/04/2009 (Bernama), Kota Kinabalu - Malaysia and Indonesia will explore amending the existing memorandum of understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation on commodities to include jatropha, besides the existing areas of palm oil, cocoa and pepper.

28/04/2009 (Food and Beverage News) - Carotino India Pvt. Ltd has launched its antioxidant rich premium red cooking oil 'Carotino' in Maharashtra which the company claims is the first and only cooking oil in India that has natural carotenes.

28/04/2009 (Reuters), Moscow - Russia, because of red tape, has reset a zero tariff on tropical oils to June 1, after which it is expected to rise to 10 percent of the customs value, the government said on Monday.

28/04/2009 (The Guardian) - AT a time when the world is facing a chronic financial recession and world leaders are thinking of ways to improve the well-being of their suffering citizens through job creation and increased business opportunities is the same time, Nigerian leaders on the other hand find it pertinent to lift the ban on importation of palm oil, a commodity which has proven to be a prolific revenue earner and job creator. Obviously those clamouring for the lift of this ban do not know the value of the oil palm crop. The single crop can literally lift a developing country out of poverty all by itself. The most famous example of this is of course Malaysia, the world's largest palm oil producer. In the early years after independence from Britain, the country was still very much an underdeveloped, poor nation, with per capita incomes of less than US$ 400 per year (in 2005 dollar terms).

28/04/2009 (Bernama), Sandakan - Sabah's plantation industry should make use of better technology and planting materials to improve efficiency and productivity.

30/04/2009 (All Africa), Monrovia — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has signed a US$8-hundred million dollar Agriculture Concession Agreement for the rehabilitation and expansion of the Guthrie Rubber Plantations. The project is to be undertaken by the Sime Darby Company of Malaysia.