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Malaysian palm oil falls on rising June stockpile
Global palm oil prices likely to remain stable in 2025
Palm Oil Prices To Hold Despite Policy-Driven Support: BMI
Malaysian Palm Oil Futures: Navigating Volatility in a Sea of Oversupply and Sustainability Pressures
Need Incentives For Oil Palm Industry In Sabah
26/12/2009 (The Star Online), Kota Kinabalu - Policies and incentives are needed for the harnessing of renewable energy from Malaysia’s massive oil palm industry.
Call For Strong Biomass Policy In Oil Palm Industry
25/12/2009 (The Star Online), Kota Kinabalu - Malaysia needs a strong biomass policy to encourage investors to be involved in renewal energy by utilising the country’s oil palm industry.
Unilever dumps supplier following Greenpeace report
23/12/2009 (Sustainable Sourcing.com) - Unilever has dumped one of its palm oil suppliers following the publication of a Greenpeace report that cast doubt on the ethical record of Indonesian company PT Smart.
Palm Oil Remains \"Jewel\" In Highly Volatile Commodities Sector
23/12/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's commodity sector remained crucial in 2009 as it provided the much needed boost at a time when the nation is facing an economic stalemate.
Oil Palm Planters May Have To Pay Windfall Tax Again
23/12/2009 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Oil palm companies in Peninsular Malaysia may start paying windfall tax again should the price of crude palm oil (CPO) continue to stay above RM2,500 per tonne.
M\'sia Needs Long-term Approach To Meet Palm Oil Challenges
23/12/2009 (The Star Online) - Carbon emission and climate change issues – the thrust of the recently-concluded Copenhagen Summit – are probably the toughest challenges to beset Malaysia’s palm oil sector.
Kerala Bans Palm Oil Imports Via Cochin Port
23/12/2009 (Bernama), New Delhi - The Kerala state government has invoked a one-year ban on palm oil imports, primarily from Malaysia and Indonesia, via Cochin Port to protect coconut farmers' interests in the southern state.
Jatropha oil is not an alternative to palm oil
22/12/2009 (Bristol Indymedia) - Anthra, a Non-Governmental Organisation from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, has condemned green claims by biofuel power company W4B as false and warn that their plans will undermine farmers livelihoods and food sovereignty in India.(1) W4B are seeking permission to build vegetable oil power stations in Portland and Avonmouth. They claim that they would burn palm oil initially, then switch to another oilseed crop, jatropha, saying this can be sourced from India among other countries, and that it is ‘sustainable’. Anthra, works with rural communities affected by jatropha and has seen at first hand how misleading these claims are. Anthra calls W4B’s plans ‘unscrupulous’ and their claims about jatropha growing in ‘relatively poor soil’ and requiring ‘no drinking water’ ‘completely false’.
Indonesia to Impose 3% Export Tax On Crude Palm Oil Starting in January
22/12/2009 (Jakarta Globe) - Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of crude palm oil, will impose a 3 percent tax on exports of the commodity starting in January to ensure domestic supplies.
