Berita Arkib

26/10/2007 (The Star Online) - LAWS to encourage the setting up of bio-diesel and bio-fuel pumps at petrol stations have to be made as oil prices are spiralling.

25/10/2007 (The Hindu), HYDERABAD: The Government is contemplating a move to ban sale of imported palm oil in the State with a view to ensuring a better price for groundnut oil and thereby protecting the interests of the groundnut farmers.

25/10/2007 (The Economic Times), Mumbai - Edible oilseed and oil prices are ruling firm in spot and futures market due to festive demand and demand from millers in addition to firmness in the international market. Meanwhile, high petroleum prices has scaled up freights rates that may decrease edible oil imports so that there is a overall bullish sentiment driving up the price.

25/10/2007 (Nigerian Tribune) - The palm oil and the blood cholesterol controversy may have been put to rest with scientists from Brazil declaring that a diet rich in crude palm oil may reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol and triacylglycerol in healthy, young individuals.

10/25/2007 (The International News), Lahore - The prices of edible oils in international market have reached 30-year high with palm oil touching $915-$920 and soybean $955-$960 per tonne there is no chance of locally processed cooking oil and ghee rates coming down, industry representatives said Wednesday.

24/10/2007 (Ferghana.ru) - Cooking oil, both vegetable and cotton, has essentially disappeared from Tashkent stores. The stores that used to sell numerous brands (local and imported from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Iran) are empty nowadays.

23/10/2007 (Mongabay) - While it is often argued that the economic benefits of oil palm plantations outweigh the environmental costs of converting biodiverse ecosystems to monocultures, new analysis suggests that the role of plantations in reducing rural poverty may be overstated.

23/10/2007 (All African.com) - As oil prices soar and biofuel production becomes more attractive, especially to poor countries, a debate is raging over its possible impact on food security.

23/10/2007 (Daily Times Pakistan), New Delhi - Sharply higher global prices of palm and soy oil will limit edible oil imports next month by private trade in India, the world’s leading buyer, despite lower oil stocks at the ports, traders said on Tuesday.

24/10/2007 (Business Standard) - India, the world’s second-biggest vegetable oil buyer, may ask state trading firms to import more edible oils, rather than cut tariffs to boost local supplies, said Dorab Mistry, director at Godrej International.

23/10/2007 (Commodity Online), Mumbai - Change is in the air for the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd’s (Nafed) ways of buying crude palm oil from the global market.

23/10/2007 (Commodity Online), Mumbai - Discourage use of edible oil for bio-fuel production or face starvation. That is the message of Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) to the Indian government.