Berita Arkib

16/03/2009 (Reuters), Jakarta - Indonesia needs to squeeze far higher yields from existing palm oil plantations rather than open up more land in a country with some of the world's swiftest deforestation, a Greenpeace official said on Monday.

16/03/2009 (Business Standard) - Consumers are unlikely to get any relief from high food prices, even though the wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation has touched a six-year low of 2.43 per cent.

15/03/2009 (Sun2Surf), Shah Alam - With a few strokes of the pen, the state acquired agricultural land in Banting, Selangor, from a group of farmers for mining. That was in 1982. Without a single hole being dug, the land is now in private hands and the usage of the land has been changed to housing.

15/03/2009 (The Jakarta Globe) - Industry analysts are warning that the production and profit of leading crude palm oil producer PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk will be stagnant at best this year on the back of weak demand and a glut of palm oil on the world market.

15/03/2009 (Times Online) - THE island of Borneo, a fragile treasure house of rainforests, rare animals and plants, is under threat from plans for Chinese engineers to build 12 dams that will cut through virgin land and displace thousands of native Dayak people.

13/03/2009 (Trading Markets) - Seventh Generation, the nation's leading brand of non-toxic, environmentally safe household solutions, announced today that it has become the first company in its industry in North America to purchase sustainable palm kernel oil certification credits to offset company wide use of the ingredient across its entire product line. By purchasing the credits, Seventh Generation is paying a premium to palm kernel oil producers that use more environmentally responsible practices to produce and harvest palm kernel oil. This credit purchase is an important first step in creating a segregated sustainable palm kernel oil supply chain used in Seventh Generation products.

13/03/2009 (Canada.com) - Dirt-poor peasants in the tropics could be thrown an economic lifeline after a lucky discovery by French scientists that takes advantage of a useless palm oil by-product and the lowly maggot.

13/03/2009 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - Crude palm oil (CPO) looks set to trade between RM1,500 and RM2,100 per tonne in the second half of this year, according to top international palm oil players.

12/03/2009 (The Jakarta Globe) - O il is one of the most important ingredients in a lot of food, but buying a bottle can be confusing.

12/03/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Bursa Malaysia Bhd plans to launch the Commodity Murabahah House (CMH), an international spot commodity platform which operates under Syariah requirements, by middle of this year.

12/03/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Finland-based Neste Oil Corporation plans to buy about 250,000 tonnes of palm oil from Malaysia this year, its vice president, business operation renewable fuels, Risto Karppinen said.

12/03/2009 (AFP), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia must force major oil firms to produce biofuel if the once-vaunted biodiesel industry is to have any future, industry experts told a conference Thursday.