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CPO prices to consolidate at RM4,000 to RM4,300
Mixed forecasts for palm oil at POC2026
CPO Futures Close Higher On Stronger Crude Oil Prices Amid US-Iran Conflict
Paraquat Poisoning: Reaching out to get it banned
24/05/2009 (NST Online) - THE Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil Process (RSPO) could help get paraquat banned in Malaysia.
Catch 22 for sustainably grown oil palm
23/05/2009 (The Star Online) - EVEN as European economies scramble to regain their foothold from the economic and financial quagmire, palm oil exports to the EU remains a Catch 22 for Malaysia’s palm oil industry as sustainably grown and certified sustainable oil palm remains a target for lawmakers in the EU.
In Search of the Perfect Biofuel -- and Financing to Bring It to Market
22/05/2009 (Reuters) - Funny thing about the biofuels business. Roughly 200 companies are pursuing the perfect biofuel -- as cheap as fossil fuels, adaptable to today’s infrastructure, low-carbon, sustainable and no threat to the food supply or to tropical forests. But even cutting-edge startups that say they have the puzzle just about solved can’t raise the money they need to get into commercial production.
RSPO standard to be improved further
23/05/2009 (The Star Online) - THE Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) aims to continue to improve the RSPO standard, which it feels is among the best for any agricultural production in the world.
Getting a grip on oil palm issues
23/05/2009 (The Star Online) - THIS month didn’t start well for the plantation industry. Over the first two days, British newspaper The Independent ran several hard-hitting articles, anchored by a front-page editorial on May 1, that blamed the expansion of oil palm area in Malaysia and Indonesia for ills caused by deforestation.
KL bourse higher in early trade
23/03/2009 (Business Times, Malaysia) - MALAYSIA shares were higher in early trading today on window-dressing ahead of the Umno General Assembly meeting in expectations of a rally, dealers said.
Why lift ban on importation of palm oil?
23/03/2009 (Business Day) - Malaysia, which for a long time was the leader in oil palm business in the world ( Indonesia is now the world leader), got its first seedlings from Nigeria . Malaysia knew long ago the potentials pal oil production had and therefore took the cultivation very seriously in an effort to boost its economy. Malaysia has over 3.2 million hectares of oil palm plantations, milling out nine million tons of palm oil with earnings up to $7 billion from its export. Malaysia has gone beyond fabrication of mills to the addition of value to the products by refining and fractionating oil in order to produce chemicals like the fatty acids, fatty alcohols and intermediates.
Will palm oil drive deforestation in the Amazon?
23/03/2009 (Mongabay.com) - Already a significant driver of tropical forest conversion across southeast Asia, oil palm expansion could emerge as threat to the Amazon rainforest due to a proposed change in Brazil's forest law, new infrastructure, and the influence of foreign companies in the region, according to researchers writing in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science.
Low oilseed yield to keep cooking oil prices burning
22/05/2009 (The Economic Times), Kolkata - The way vegetable oil prices in the global market are rising by the day, chances of any further drop in cooking oil prices at home are remote. Cooking oil prices are ruling at no less than Rs 70 per kg at the retail-end.
