Berita Arkib

08/11/2007 (CNN), London - Destruction of Indonesia's peatlands to make way for the production of palm oil is leading to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a problem that will get worse as demand for biofuel grows, Greenpeace reported Thursday.

08/11/2007 (Telegraph.co.uk) - Big international companies are fuelling the wholesale destruction of critically important rainforests and peatlands in Indonesia in their search for cheap palm oil, a hard-hitting report claims.

08/11/2007 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil may rise as high as $1,000 a ton next year because of increasing demand and a shortfall in supplies of vegetable oils, according to Derom Bangun, the head of the Indonesian Palm Oil Association.

08/11/2007 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - India today has the world’s cheapest cooking oil. Soya oil at Indore currently beats imported palm oil, the world’s cheapest energy source. Thanks to more desi vegetable oil extracted from three million tonnes extra oilseeds this summer, Indian consumers can stay cool even after global cooking oil prices hit a 33-year high on Wednesday.

08/11/2007 (Euro2day) - Crude palm oil is expected to hit $1,000 per tonne in the next few months and remain high for a decade, producers and analysts say, as supply is unlikely to match demand for food and biofuels.

08/11/2007 (Business Green) - Greenpeace claims Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble are all contributing to the destruction of precious Indonesian peat swamp forests through palm oil deployment.

07/11/2007 (PTI), Kochi - The Kerala High Court has stayed a notification issued by the Director General of Foreign Trade banning import of palm oil through Kochi port.

07/11/2007 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - PPB Oil Palms Bhd, now merged with Wilmar International Ltd, will hand over 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of agriculture land already planted with oil palm in Sugut to the Sabah state government for a smallholder scheme.

07/11/2007 (Reuters) - Leaders of the biofuels industry are challenging critics who argue that converting food to fuel is driving up food prices, saying higher energy costs and other factors are more important.

07/11/2007 (The New Nation) - The retail prices of most of the essentials remained almost stable in the city markets on Tuesday, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) market report said here on Wednesday.

04/11/2007 (Inguirer.net), Manila - Consumers who are supportive of efforts to cut down the country's oil import bill, as a way of preventing upticks in food prices amid the current long-drawn oil price spike, should think twice about biofuels.

07/10/2007 (Business Standard), New Delhi - Differences on duty reduction on items in highly sensitive list mean a spillover to next year.