Berita Arkib

A delegation of indigenous representatives from Sarawak is currently in Europe to “expose the Malaysian palm oil industry’s detrimental practices”, the Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund said in a statement today.

Nestlé the world’s largest food and beverage corporation, says that by 2020 there will be no more deforestation linked to its products and embedded in its supply chains. That’s an ambitious goal for the Swiss multinational, which now is making progress by monitoring oil palm plantations from the sky

Anyone lucky enough to visit Ghana could do worse than order a plate of boiled yam and red-red—a stew made with beans and tomato paste. A Sunday morning treat in Europe might be homemade crepes and hazelnut chocolate spread. Both of these meals—though part of very different cuisines and eaten in different places—contain palm oil, an edible vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).

Malaysian palm oil futures reversed earlier gains to close 1 per cent down on Friday, falling on bearish production outlooks to chart the biggest weekly drop since early November.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s move to suspend export duties on crude palm oil (CPO) until Dec 31, 2019 will help to improve Malaysia’s CPO export competitiveness to clear the nation's current high stock level, CIMB Equities Research said.

JAKARTA: The Indonesia Biodiesel Producers Association (APROBI) estimates the country may export up to 2 million kilolitres (kl) of unblended biodiesel in 2019 in an "optimistic scenario", Vice Chairman Paulus Tjakrawan told reporters on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures fell nearly 4 percent on Thursday evening to their lowest in almost five months, weighed down by weakness in U.S. soyoil prices on the Chicago Board of Trade and weak demand sentiment.

NEW DELHI: The Indian government has increased import duty on crude palm oil (CPO) by US$5 per tonne and on refined, bleached and dried (RBD) palm olein by US$9 per tonne.

Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok today expressed her disappointment over negative palm oil sentiments having also taken root in Singapore.

Indonesia’s trade ministry has decided to hold zero percent export tax for crude palm oil (CPO) and 5 percent for cocoa for next month’s shipment, director general for foreign trade of the trade ministry Oke Nurwan said.

SINGAPORE (May 2): Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok has urged exporters to take advantage of the seven-month-long extension of the export duty exemption on crude palm oil (cpo) from May 1, 2019

MUMBAI: India raised the base import price of crude palm oil by $5 to $545 per tonne, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.