Berita Arkib
08-10-2008
PM: Focus on renewable palm biofuel
07/10/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - The country’s biotechnology industry could take advantage of the global concern over food and energy security by focusing on developing new and economically viable renewable fuel from palm oil.
07-10-2008
Indonesia applies for palm oil patents
06/10/2008 (Financial Times) - An Indonesian plantation company has filed the first patent applications for a hybrid variety of palm oil seeds and their production that it expects will increase palm oil yield by several hundred per cent.
07-10-2008
Indian Palm Oil Buyers Renegotiate Contracts After Prices Slump
06/10/2008 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil importers in India, the biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, are seeking to renegotiate contracts after prices plunged to the lowest in almost two years, a processors' group said.
07-10-2008
Malaysia\'s Biotech Industry Expected To Grow 22 Percent Annually, Says Abdullah
06/10/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's biotech industry which is currently valued at RM1.3 billion is expected to grow 22 percent annually, driven largely by the development of oil palm, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Monday.
06-10-2008
Borneo forest people reject oil palm plantation on their land
05/10/2008 (Mongabay) - Indigenous forest dwellers in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have rejected a proposal to turn 80,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of the land into an oil palm plantation, reports the Malaysian Star.
06-10-2008
Mpohor-Wassa East Assembly assists oil palm farmers with inputs
05/10/2008 (Modern Ghana) - The Mpohor-Wassa East District Assembly had spent about GHC 165,949 to procure seedlings for supply to institutions and individual farmers to boost oil palm cultivation in the district on credit.
06-10-2008
Natives reject plan for oil palm project
05/10/2008 (The Star), Miri - Some 900 natives from the Berawan-Tering ethnic group in interior northern Sarawak have rejected a proposal by a private land development giant to acquire 80,000ha of their native land to be turned into an oil palm plantation.
06-10-2008
PVMA demands rationalisation of duty on cooking oil import
05/10/2008 (Daily Times), Karachi - The government should increase custom duty on imported vegetable ghee in order to discourage import and encourage more production in the country, said Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers Association (PVMA) Saturday.
06-10-2008
Palm oil rebound not likely in short-term
04/10/2008 (The Financial Express) - Ballooning vegetable oil stocks and a fast-declining interest from funds in volatile commodities may hold off a recovery in palm oil prices until 2009, despite its fall to a level much lower than rival soyoil.
06-10-2008
Heavy import defaults to hit palm oil traders hard
30/09/2008 (The Economic Times), Mumbai - Palm oil, India’s primary edible oil, which had witnessed heavy import defaults since June ‘08 because of the high price, is catching local traders and end-users on the wrong foot even as the price has eased.
06-10-2008
Samples of hazardous palm oil sent for laboratory test
29/09/2008 (Regional Times), Karachi - Special team of health department, on the directives of Sindh Heath Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed, Sunday visited Port Qasim Authority and took the samples of hazardous palm oil for laboratory test.
06-10-2008
United Plantations gets US seal of approval
28/09/2008 (NST Online), New York - The American Palm Oil Council (APOC) announced that a Malaysian oil palm plantation has received the first-ever certification as the first plantation to adopt the strictest standards of sustainability for its palm-oil production.