Berita Arkib

22/12/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture and the Indonesian Plantation Research Institute (LRPI) are developing 50 hectares of castor oil palm seedlings to reach a 2006 target of 150,000 hectares for biodiesel.

21/12/05 KUCHING, (Bernama) -- Smallholders in Sarawak, through joint ventures with the private sector, are encouraged to participate in the Integrated Oil Palm Cattle programme in plantations to boost food production, particularly livestock.

24/12/05 (The Star) - KUMPULAN Guthrie Bhd (Guthrie) will focus on consolidating and increasing the capability of its Indonesian operations following the improved investment climate there, said chairman Tan Sri Musa Hitam.

23/12/05 (World Commodity Profiles)

22/12/05 (soyatech.com) - Lurgi AG, a subsidiary of the GEA Group, is to implement the world's largest biodiesel project in Piesteritz, Eastern Germany.

22/12/05 (soyatech.com) - A 'roundtable' panel concluded that palm oil, coconut oil and interesterified oils could provide a reasonable alternative to hydrogenated oils containing trans fats, after examining the oils' functionality in food products and their possible impact on consumer health.

21/12/05 (World Commodity Profiles)

20/12/05 PUTRAJAYA, (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Tuesday chaired the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Palm Oil Industry, aimed at enhancing the performance of the sector which is considered vital to the country economy.

19/12/05 BENGKULU, (Asia Pulse) - Private plantation companies cultivating oil palm in Bengkulu have been asked to build processing factories to produce palm oil end products.

19/12/05 (The Star) - IT would be a natural progression for the Johor-based J.C. Chang group of companies to upgrade from the manufacture of cooking oil to biodiesel. The group would be commissioning its RM40mil palm biodiesel plant in Pasir Gudang next year.

20/19/05 NEW DELHI (Bloomberg) - Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd., a Malaysian plantation company, said it spent 10 million ringgit ($2.6 million) on its first palm fruit research center in Indonesia, as it seeks to expand its operations in the country.

20/12/05 (The Star) - KUMPULAN Guthrie Bhd unit, Plantation Indonesia, is expected to show a major improvement in earnings this year, driven mainly by impressive yields, oil extraction rates (OER) and fresh fruit bunches production (FFB).