Berita Arkib

13/02/2009 (The Economic Times, India), Mumbai - MUMBAI: A glut of edible oil following heavy imports is forcing traders to sell their stock at a loss. Following this, fresh imports have already slowed down according to the trade and industry people.

13/02/2009 (Business Standard, India) - The domestic edible oil industry is looking to acquire palm plantations in Malaysia/Indonesia since prices of such plantations have crashed by 50-60 per cent in the past 5-6 months following a fall in palm oil prices.

13/01/2009 (The Jakarta Globe), Singapore - Palm oil futures in Malaysia headed for a second week of gains as stockpiles in the world’s second- biggest producer of the commodity dropped to a nine-month low.

12/02/2009 (Bernama), New Delhi - India's Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath has assured that the country will import more palm oil from Malaysia, which is now a leading exporter to the sub-continent economy.

12/02/2009 (Bloomberg) - Malaysia’s exports fell the most in almost seven years in December as electronics and commodities sales slid amid dwindling global orders.

12/02/2009 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Declining palm oil inventories and lower production in January failed to lift crude palm oil (CPO) prices yesterday, with the benchmark April CPO contract losing RM44 to RM1,925 per tonne on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives.

11/02/2009 (Bakery Info) - Paterson Arran has been named the first company to be part of the HGCA’s Supply Chain Partnership Innovation Showcase. The initative has been devised to help promote best practice in the cereals supply chain in innovation, cost and price, transport, materials testing and communication and collaboration.

11/02/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the world’s biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, may import 14 percent more cooking oil in the year to October because of a drop in palm oil prices.

11/02/2009 (CSR Asia) - Some of the World’s most prominent sustainable agriculture standards are coming under attack – their credibility and viability threatened by large international NGOs that are fed up with slow progress. But can these attacks create such confusion and mistrust that companies give up and go back to the less-than-sustainable “old ways”?

11/02/2009 (Daily Express, Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur - Usage of the mandatory blending of five percent palm oil with diesel (B5) will be fully implemented by 2010, according to Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin.

11/02/2009 (Daily Express, Malaysia), Tawau - Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB) Director General Datuk Dr Mohd Basri Wahid admits it is struggling to carry out the biodiesel (B5) scheme nationwide.

10/02/2009 (Bernama), Tawau - Vehicles of the Defence Ministry and Public Works Department (PWD) here are to use biodiesel fuel or B5 in April, Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) director-general Datuk Dr Mohd Basri Wahid said Tuesday.