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FGV Holdings Bhd reported net loss of RM3.37 million in the first quarter ended March 2019 compared with a net profit of RM1.12 million a year ago largely due to a sharp drop in palm oil and sugar prices.

Poland is against the European Union’s (EU) proposed plan to ban the use of palm oil as a component of biofuels, and stressed that the republic does not intend to reduce the demand for Malaysian palm oil.

FGV Holdings Bhd, the world's largest crude palm oil producer, said on Wednesday it is exploring ways to reduce its dependency on palm oil after slipping to a small first-quarter loss amid flat prices

Malaysian palm oil futures rose over 2% in evening trade on Wednesday, tracking gains in US soyoil on the Chicago Board of Trade and supported by a weaker ringgit.

Some 180 sanitary trucks will use biodiesel containing Malay¬sian palm oil in a pilot project to test its feasibility on Chinese vehicles.

Hamstrung by huge public debt, Malaysia is planning to use palm oil to buy military equipment, including fighter jets. European defense companies may not be enthused about Kuala Lumpur's latest attempt at barter trade.

Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation is opening itself to unprecedented scrutiny with Crosscheck, a new transparency tool that allows the public to trace palm oil down to the mill level, and inspect its supply chain for environmental violations and risks.

The total cost of handling and processing involved in the ongoing regularisation of plantation workers and their dependants in Sabah will be an estimated RM808 million, according to the Malaysian Estate Owners Association (MEOA).

BASF, Estée Lauder Companies and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil are helping promote sustainable palm oil in Indonesia’s Waykanan district.

National Association of Smallholders Malaysia (NASH) urges the government to facilitate green food packaging business from oil palm leaves and lauds the government's sending illegally dumping of plastic wastes back to the EU.

I REFER to the letter “Sustainability is a balancing act” (The Star, May 25) and would like to comment on several points raised by the writer, Professor Datuk Dr Ahmad Ibrahim.

NEW DELHI – The government is likely to fix the fair remunerative price of fresh fruit bunches of oil palm grown in the country to ensure better realisations to farmers and boost domestic palm oil production, a senior official said today.