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10/12/2008 (Alibaba.com), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia said on Wednesday it would aim to convince independent power producers to boost the use of palm oil as a fuel, but industry observers remained sceptical because of the government's overly high subsidies to support the sector.

10/12/2008 (Bloomberg) - Indonesia’s exports of crude palm oil and other products from oil palm plantations may drop 31 percent in the last quarter of this year as lower prices force buyers to default on purchase orders.

10/12/2008 (Alibaba.com), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia will sell palm biodiesel at domestic fuel pumps by January 2010, Commodities Minister Peter Chin said on Wednesday, adding that the government was in talks with independent power producers on burning palm oil as biodiesel.

12/12/2008 (Your Renewable News) - Malaysia yesterday said that it would aim to convince independent power producers (IPPs) to boost the use of palm oil as a fuel, but industry observers remained sceptical because of the government's overly high subsidies to support the sector.

12/12/2008 (NST Online) - MALAYSIA and Indonesia will find ways to boost palm oil prices as falling prices will affect the economy of both countries, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.

04/12/2008 (The Star Online) - THE cold war between fertiliser manufacturers and local planters has taken a new twist with six top local plantation companies last week taking a united stand to put on hold their purchases for the next six months.

04/12/2008 (NST Online) - PETALING JAYA: Consumers may not see prices dropping just yet, but there is good news coming for those wanting more value for their money.

03/12/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - The government may bring forward to next month the use of biodiesel by government vehicles in an effort to increase the use of crude palm oil and push up the commodity price.

03/12/2008 (ANTARA News), Nusa Dua - Indonesia is committed to developing oil palm plantations and industries in environment-friendly and sustainable ways to facilitate the export of its key commodity particularly to the European Union (EU), a minister said.

03/12/2008 (Bloomberg) - Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer, will help small farmers replant 125,000 hectares of palms in the next two years to rejuvenate plantations and control supply, a government official said.

03/12/2008 (Mongabay.com) - Producing biofuels from oil palm plantations established on degraded grasslands rather than tropical rainforests and peat lands would result in a net removal of carbon from the atmosphere rather than greenhouse gas emissions, report researchers writing in Conservation Biology. The results confirm that benefits to climate from biofuel production depend greatly on the type of land used for feedstocks.

03/12/2008 (Reuters), Mumbai - India soybean futures fell on Wednesday morning on fresh selling on the back of weak Malaysian palm oil futures and on expectations of high arrivals in the spot market as farmers increase supplies, analysts said.