Berita Arkib

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

28/09/2008 (Reuters), Mumbai - Indian traders who reneged on contracts to import palm oil hope to negotiate discounts from suppliers to resolve disputes but they need to act fast to retain credibility, trade officials and an analyst said on Sunday.

27/09/2008 (The Nation), Karachi - The government has yet to specify the standard of the disputed RBD palm oil as chemical experts have once again suspected it authenticity of its samples collected from IFFCO Refinery from where it was seized and dumped nine years ago.

27/09/2008 (Reuters), Mumbai - Palm oil prices are set to rise soon on higher demand from biofuel makers and stock building by some consumers, while the credit crisis will have only a small impact on the commodity, a leading industry official said.

27/09/2008 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil prices have ``bottomed'' and will be supported by falling supplies of rival soybean oil and rising demand for biodiesel, Thomas Mielke, chief editor of OilWorld, a trade publication, said.

27/09/2008 (Bloomberg) - India, the world's biggest buyer of vegetable oil after China, may levy a tax on imports in November to slow purchases of edible oils that have depressed the domestic price of cooking fat and oilseeds.