Berita Arkib

05/07/2008 (The Jakarta Post, Jakarta) - The Trade Ministry is in talks with the country's crude palm oil (CPO) producers over a revision to the current policy for the commodity's export duty.

05/07/2008 (Scoop.com) - What is it with environmental organizations, politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad), with their dire predictions of apocalyptic climate change – claims that swamp the media, generating unnecessary alarm and panic? They are seized upon by media, hungry for eye-catching stories.

04/07/2008 (Africa Science News Service) - Oil palm is a new cash crop being re-introduced in Africa, and Uganda has taken the lead in the region, through a project that has not only started changing the livelihoods of people on the Islands, but also to rehabilitate the deforested land, due to human activities around lake Victoria.

04/07/2008 (The Financial Express) - Leveraging on the increased attention on edible oils, Oil Palm India, the Kerala-based public sector venture established to promote oil palm cultivation in the nation, is all set to increase its production through massive re-plantation schemes and by bringing more area under cultivation. Increasing profitability and importance has prompted the company also to add a refining plant to produce refined palm oil and a processing plant to process palm kernel oil.

03/07/2008 (Science Daily) - Endangered wild orangutan (Pongo spp.) populations are declining more sharply in Sumatra and Borneo than previously estimated, according to new findings published this month by Great Ape Trust of Iowa scientist Dr. Serge Wich and other orangutan conservation experts in Oryx – The International Journal of Conservation.

03/07/2008 (Lankan Business Online) - Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantations is diversifying into fruit cultivation, dairy farming and marketing bottled water, given the growing need for food and rising prices, a senior official said.

04/07/2008 (Inter Press Service), Tokyo - Japan wants countries to reconsider biofuels as an alternative technology to fight climate change by using fuel cell cars at the Group of Eight (G8) Summit on Jul. 4-7. The vehicles will transport the leaders of the world's major industrialised nations when they gather on the northern Japanese Island of Hokkaido.

04/07/2008 (Bloomberg) - India may increase edible oil imports by more than 80 percent in the four months to October, straining global stockpiles, to meet a shortfall in domestic supplies and cool the fastest inflation in 13 years.

02/07/2008 (Barkery and Snacks.com) - Swelling domestic stocks for Malaysian palm oil, widely used by bakers, left crude palm oil futures closing lower on Monday, offering a slight relief for prices.

02/07/2008 (The Economic Times), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian crude palm oil futures rose 1.2 per cent on Wednesday as crude oil prices hovered near record levels, bolstering vegetable oil markets from China to the US. But slowing overseas demand last month weighed on palm oil, which is about 19.3 per cent off a record high of 4,486 ringgit per tonne.

02/07/2008 (Bernama), Beijing - China, the world's largest vegetable oil importer, will begin tracking imports of six edible oil commodities including soybeans and palm oil from Aug 1 to manage supplies as it battles inflation fuelled by rising food prices.

01/07/2008 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - The first half year was a tough one for stock investors and the bad news is that most people believe it won't get easier any time soon.