Berita Arkib

13/04/2009 (Times Online) - Permanently changed diets in China and the world's unrelenting appetite for fried food may defy the global recession and trigger a “stagflation” surge in the price of edible oils, commodity traders in Asia have said.

13/04/2009 (AP), Jakarta - Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia — perhaps as many as 2,000 — giving a rare boost to one of the world's most endangered great apes.

09/04/2009 (Biodiesel Magazine), Murrieta, CA - SRS Engineering Corp., a Southern California-based biodiesel equipment manufacturer, was visited on March 26, 2009 by a group of Indonesian delegates to uncover potential goods to import and export from the U.S. These delegates, who represent commerce interests in their country, visited a handful of Southern California businesses to discuss potential trade agreements between the two countries.

10/04/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's palm oil stocks in March 2009 dropped by 12.89 percent to 1.364 million tonnes from 1.566 million tonnes in the previous month.

08/04/2009 (Forbes) - BURLINGAME, Calif.--Can the biodiesel industry be saved? It's remotely possible--but not unless the government steps in to jump-start the besieged market.

08/14/2009 (NST Online) - ON a recent trip to London, I chanced upon an article in National Geographic magazine describing the supposed threat posed to Borneo's rainforest by oil palm.

07/04/2009 (The Jakarta Globe) - Indonesia’s largely benign experience with the weather could be in for a jolt, with sea temperatures starting to rise, raising the possibility that El Nino, the tempestuous weather phenomenon that wreaks havoc on the world’s food supply, could return in August.

07/04/2009 (The Jakarta Post) - The government plans to lower the minimum benchmark price of crude palm oil (CPO) for calculating the payment of export duty.

07/04/2009 (WWF), Jakarta - A major Indonesian plantation company has become the country’s first certified maker of sustainable palm oil as WWF simultaneously collaborated with the Indonesian Department of Agriculture and others to hold a first-time regional training workshop for small producers.

08/04/2009 (The Star Online), Putrajaya - Malaysia’s palm oil stocks for end-March are expected to be lower at 1.5 million-1.51 million tonnes from 1.56 million tonnes in February, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui.

06/04/2009 (The Telegraph), New Delhi - Commerce minister Kamal Nath is unlikely to have with him the papers for signing the free trade agreement when he meets Asean leaders in Thailand this weekend.

06/04/2009 (The Jakarta Globe) - Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono says the Burmese government has invited Indonesian companies to invest in developing that country’s oil palm and rubber plantations, although business players at home say they will have to first see for themselves whether conditions in Burma are favorable.