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CPO price forecast to climb for rest of the year
CPO FUTURES HIT TWO-YEAR HIGH ON BULLISH SENTIMENT, STRONG EXPORTS
CPO price strength could dissipate through end-2024, says BMI
Positive growth for plantation sector, amid rising CPO prices
Big brands accused over palm oil deforestation
08/11/2007 (Business Green) - Greenpeace claims Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble are all contributing to the destruction of precious Indonesian peat swamp forests through palm oil deployment.
Notification banning Palm oil import via Kochi stayed
07/11/2007 (PTI), Kochi - The Kerala High Court has stayed a notification issued by the Director General of Foreign Trade banning import of palm oil through Kochi port.
PPB Oils to create oil palm entrepreneurs
07/11/2007 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - PPB Oil Palms Bhd, now merged with Wilmar International Ltd, will hand over 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of agriculture land already planted with oil palm in Sugut to the Sabah state government for a smallholder scheme.
Biofuel industry says oil hike driving food prices
07/11/2007 (Reuters) - Leaders of the biofuels industry are challenging critics who argue that converting food to fuel is driving up food prices, saying higher energy costs and other factors are more important.
\'Price of winter vegetables declining gradually\'
07/11/2007 (The New Nation) - The retail prices of most of the essentials remained almost stable in the city markets on Tuesday, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) market report said here on Wednesday.
Biofuels drive threatening food security--consumer watchdog
04/11/2007 (Inguirer.net), Manila - Consumers who are supportive of efforts to cut down the country's oil import bill, as a way of preventing upticks in food prices amid the current long-drawn oil price spike, should think twice about biofuels.
Indo-Asean FTA slips on palm oil
07/10/2007 (Business Standard), New Delhi - Differences on duty reduction on items in highly sensitive list mean a spillover to next year.
Indonesian oil palm companies in line of fire
06/10/2007 (The Jakarta Post) - At first sight it appears to be a boy's scout camp, hidden in the forests of Sumatra. But it only takes a 50-meter stroll behind the camp to realize that the young people who have gathered there from the surrounding villages are not simply nature lovers enjoying their time in the forest, because there is nothing left of the forest.
Biofuel Costs Hurt Effort To Curb Oil Price
04/11/2007 (The Wall Street Journal Online) - Rising costs of biofuels and other alternative energies are making them less viable as substitutes for crude oil, a development that could frustrate efforts to bring oil prices down in the years ahead.
