Berita Arkib

13/2/07 JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia's Supreme Court has sentenced a palm oil plantation owner to eight years in jail for illegal cultivation in protected forest areas, a court spokesman said Tuesday.

11/2/07 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The oil palm must be the most reviled plant on earth, held responsible for everything from rainforest destruction and orangutan annihilation to polluted Asian skies and exploitation of workers.

12/2/07 (Kyodo) - A declaration to conserve rainforests on Borneo has ended plans to open the world's largest palm oil plantations on the island, an environmental organization said Tuesday.

8/2/07 KUCHING (Bernama) - A new oil palm plantation, covering 13,000 hectares of Native Customary Rights (NCR) land, will be developed soon in Genaan Sebauh, Bintulu, with the participation of about 780 NCR landowners.

7/2/08 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, has opened a plant to turn waste from palm oil trees into energy, a news report said Wednesday.

9/2/07 (Reuters) LONDON - Biofuel production in developing countries including Brazil and Indonesia could soon earn carbon credits using lucrative north-south incentives, the new head of carbon trading at the UN's climate body said on Thursday.

7/2/07 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, has opened a plant to turn waste from palm oil trees into energy, a news report said Wednesday.

7/2/07 (The Star) - KUCHING: Some 13,000ha of native customary rights (NCR) land in Genaan Sebauh, Bintulu, will be developed into an oil palm plantation

BAGAN DATOH, Feb 7 (Bernama) -- The Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Ministry has allocated RM650 million to redevelop the coconut industry, which has been badly affected as large tracts of land for the commodity were replaced by oil palm and rubber.

8/2/07 (Bloomberg) -- If water were a globally traded commodity, with unmet demand in China and India reflected in its price, the world might shed its newfound craze for biofuels.

7/2/07 (Business Standard India) - Increase in imports of agricultural products like edible oil and foodgrain has led to a growth in imports of sensitive items by 11.7 per cent in April-December 2006 at Rs 12,959 crore, compared with Rs 14,472 crore in the same period of 2005.

6/2/07 (FT.com) - Biodiesel could be "this year's ethanol" in the view of Leigh Goering, portfolio manager for the natural resources fund at Chilton Investment Company.