Berita Arkib
15-10-2008
Ministry to push for mandatory use of biofuel
14/10/2008 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry will push for mandatory biodiesel use in the public transportation industry in its next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Competitiveness of Palm Oil, following a similar implementation in Indonesia recently.
15-10-2008
Sime’s counter measures
14/10/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - Sime Darby Bhd, the world’s largest listed planter, will be hurt by lower crude palm oil (CPO) prices but it plans to offset that by targeting a 5% improvement in its CPO production, increasing exports to China and cutting costs, said president and group chief executive officer Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid.
15-10-2008
Farmers in Sumatra let oil-palm fruit rot as prices fall
12/10/2008 (The Jakarta Post) - Thousands of farmers in Rokan Hulu regency, Riau province, in Sumatra are leaving their oil-palm fruit unharvested, letting it rot on the tree because of the sharp price decline for the export commodity, ^YAntara^Y news agency reported Sunday.
13-10-2008
Malaysia lifts annual palm oil export quota
13/10/2008 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia, the world's second-largest producer of palm oil, raised its annual export quota for crude palm oil by 50 percent as a surging inventory hurt prices, a government minister said on Monday.
13-10-2008
Sime Darby To Send First Shipment Of Traceable Palm Oil To Holland
13/10/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Sime Darby plans to send its first shipment of certified and traceble palm oil to its facility, Unimills B.V., in Holland by October 19, its President and Group Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid, said here today.
13-10-2008
CPO prices very near bottom
13/10/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures, which have fallen sharply recently to the RM1,800-level, are now very near the bottom, says OSK Investment Research.
13-10-2008
Farmers in Sumatra let oil palm fruit rotten as prices fall
12/10/2008 (ANTARA News), Pekanbaru, Riau - Thousands of farmers in Rokan Hulu (Rohul) district, Riau province in Sumatra, are now leaving their oil palm fruit unharvested, letting it rotten on the shaft as a result of sharp fall in the prices of the export commodity.
13-10-2008
Palm oil clearing swathes of forest in Indonesia\'s Papua: Greenpeace
11/10/2008 (AFP), Jakarta — Palm oil companies are clearing massive swathes of untouched forest in Indonesia's remote easternmost Papua region, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday.
13-10-2008
Governments failing to clamp down on Malaysian biofuel
11/10/2008 (Business Green) - Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth (FOE) has hit out at the failure of governments in the UK and Malaysia to adequately police the production of palm oil which it claims is leading to deforestation and contributing to climate change.
09-10-2008
Indonesia\'s \'09 palm biodiesel use seen at 1-1.2m T
08/10/2008 (Alibaba.com), Jakarta - Indonesia may consume 1 million to 1.2 million tonnes of biodiesel using palm oil as feed stock in 2009, following the introduction of a mandatory biofuel policy, a government official said on Wednesday.
09-10-2008
Action against 10-year old imported palm oil
08/10/2008 (The Post), Kaeachi - For the first time Pakistan Standard and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) has come out with the claim that under PSQCA Act 1996, the RBD Palm/Edible Oil is mandatory item to confine with PS Standard No-1561.
09-10-2008
PSQCA takes notice of old palm oil issue
08/10/2008 (Pakistan Observer), Karachi — For the first time Pakistan Standard and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) has come out with the claim that under PSQCA Act 1996, the RBD Palm/Edible Oil is mandatory item to confine with PS Standard No.1561.