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07/07/2022 (The Star Online), Putrajaya - The special task force to address inflation has instructed agencies involved to find a mechanism to reduce the retail price of cooking oil following the decline in crude palm oil prices.

07/07/2022 (Free Malaysia Today), Petaling Jaya - The government has been urged to abolish two windfall taxes imposed on palm oil producers in the face of rising costs confronting the industry.

07/07/2022 (Today Online), Jakarta - Senior Indonesian minister Luhut Pandjaitan estimated on Thursday that an additional 2.5 million tonnes of palm oil could be absorbed by the domestic market if the country raised the amount of palm oil in its biodiesel mix to 40per cent (B40).

07/07/2022 (Antara News), Jakarta - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) visited the Palm Oil Research Center (PPKS) in Medan, North Sumatra, to monitor the progress of research on using red palm oil as cooking oil during a working visit to the province.

07/07/2022 (The Star Online), Klang - The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry will intensify enforcement to curb the smuggling and misappropriation of subsidised cooking oil to neighbouring countries.

07/07/2022 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - High crude palm oil (CPO) stock levels have made prices volatile, with fears of the sharp price correction in commodities like wheat could trigger contract washouts and further exacerbate the price downtrend.

06/07/2022 (Free Malaysia Today), Mumbai - India’s palm oil imports in July are set to jump to the highest in 10 months because of a hefty correction in prices and as Indonesia allows more exports of the tropical oil, four dealers told Reuters.

06/07/2022 (The Edge Markets), Jakarta - Indonesia is considering setting its crude palm oil (CPO) export reference price every two weeks instead of monthly, a senior Trade Ministry official said on Wednesday (July 6), aiming to adjust quicker to fast-changing international market prices.

06/07/2022 (Free Malaysia Today), Kuala Lumpur - Crude palm oil (CPO) prices are expected to remain under pressure in the near term and trade in the RM4,000-RM5,000 per tonne range.

06/07/2022 (The Star Online) - THE urgency to decarbonise has never been greater. While crude palm oil prices are projected to trade at a healthy RM5,000 per tonne in the first half of 2022, palm oil’s climate impact – deforestation, draining of peat swamps, land clearance by burning, biodiversity loss – is less rosy.

06/07/2022 (New Straits Times), Kota Kinabalu - Oil palm smallholders in Tongod district are keen to shift to agroforestry (cultivation of fruit and rubber trees), said Forever Sabah in a statement today upon the completion of a two-year pilot project.

06/07/2022 (Antara News) - Expert staff of the Industry Ministry Andi Rizaldi stated that the program to downstream the palm oil sector was an important key in the downstream policy of agro-based industries.