Berita Arkib

04/01/2008 (Reuters), New Delhi - India, the world's leading vegetable oil importer, may cut customs duties on oils to rein in a spike in domestic prices and to keep a lid on inflation pressures, traders said on Friday.

04/01/2008 (The Jakarta Post, Jakarta) - The Indonesian Farmers' Union criticized the government Wednesday for mismanagement in the food crop sector, highlighting the massive displacement of farmers by the expansion of oil palm plantations.

04/01/2008 (Daily Times, Pakistan), Karachi - The reduction of ten percent import duty on palm oil from Malaysia will not significantly affect the domestic price of vegetable oil in the country, the importers and dealers said on Thursday.

03/01/2008 (Financial Times) - The prospect of crude oil staying above $100 a barrel is pushing the price of palm oil to record highs as the commodity is increasingly made into biodiesel, an often cheaper alternative to petroleum-based fuels.

03/01/2008 (The Hindu Business Line) - The soaring Sensex is as adrenalin to India Inc. Not many, however, seem to be unduly concerned about the galloping food prices. Almost everyone, from the Prime Minister downwards, is making pious noises on this score, without any tangible efforts to rein in the soaring prices.

04/01/2008 (Guardian Unlimited) - Using biofuels made from corn, sugar cane and soy could have a greater environmental impact than burning fossil fuels, according to experts. Although the fuels themselves emit fewer greenhouse gases, they all have higher costs in terms of biodiversity loss and destruction of farmland.

02/01/2008 (NST Online), Georgetown - Checks on the supply of cooking oil have begun following complaints of reduced supplies from wholesalers and retailers.

03/01/2008 (Euro2Day) - The prospect of crude oil staying above $100 a barrel is pushing the price of palm oil to record highs as the commodity is increasingly made into biodiesel, an often cheaper alternative to petroleum-based fuels.

04/01/2008 (Mongabay.com) - Biofuels made from world's dominant energy crops -- including corn, soy, and oil palm -- may have worse environment impacts than conventional fossil fuels, reports a study published in the journal Science.

04/01/2008 (Earth Times) - New York City's first biodiesel company, Tri-State Biodiesel, is proud to announce that beginning today it will be filling FreshDirect's delivery trucks with clean-burning biodiesel blended fuel. The biodiesel fuel, which is made primarily from waste cooking oil collected from New York City restaurants, will be phased in to FreshDirect's fuel supply over the course of the next 2 months. By February 08, FreshDirect's entire fleet will be biodiesel powered, making it the largest private trucking fleet in the city to go biodiesel.

02/01/2008 (ANTARA News), Jakarta - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said that Indonesia`s CPO exports in November 2007 dropped drastically by 61 percent compared to that in October 2007.

03/01/2008 (CheckBiotech) - In a Joint Venture MOU signing ceremony between Malaysia State Government of Perak & Earth Biofuel (Asia) Sdn Bhd, it was announced the intention to build a “First-in-the-World” 200 acres Biofuel Integrated Environmental Park in the State which will involve 900,000 carbon credit, a centralized treatment system for 4000 m3/hr industrial & biological waste water, methane gas recovery for 300,000 tonne/year landfill and R&D cum Training Centre generating about 30,000 jobs related to the Project.