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CPO prices to consolidate at RM4,000 to RM4,300
Mixed forecasts for palm oil at POC2026
CPO FUTURES CLOSE LOWER ONSTRONGER RINGGIT, CONCERNS OVERWEAK DEMAND
CPO Futures Close Higher On Stronger Crude Oil Prices Amid US-Iran Conflict
Palm oil plantations available as prices drop
02/12/2008 (International Herald Tribune) - A slump in palm oil prices is giving Asia's cash-rich planters a chance to take over smaller companies that mushroomed in recent years as commodities boomed but are now struggling to survive.
Oil Palm Smallholders Still Making Profits Despite Fall In CPO Price
02/12/2008 (My Sinchew), Kuala Lumpur - Oil palm smallholders are still making a profit, although smaller, from crude palm oil (CPO) which is at a low level of RM1,500 per tonne at the moment.
NGO activists are not unlike employees in other professions
02/12/2008 (The Jakarta Post) - Greenpeace strongly criticized the recent annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bali for being too soft on its "green-washing" members (growers and buyers). Abetnego Tarigan, the newly elected director of palm oil business watchdog Sawit Watch, shared with The Jakarta Post's Kornelius Purba his views about the RSPO, Indonesia's palm oil situation, and his experience as an NGO activist.
Palm oil offers no green solution
02/12/2008 (BBC News) - A major international study says palm oil plantations reduce plant and animal diversity, and do little to reduce carbon emissions.
Clearing forests for biofuel hurts climate: study
01/12/2008 (Reuters), Poland - Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life, a study found on Monday.
Biofuel Plantations on Tropical Forestlands Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity, Study Finds
01/12/2008 (Market Watch), Washington - Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.
Crude shock: Viability of biodiesel units may come under scrutiny
01/12/2008 (The Malaysian Insider), Kuala Lumpur - In the past few years, palm oil has proved to be a growing source of biodiesel, thanks to some pioneering efforts by Malaysian and Indonesian entrepreneurs who had the backing of their governments.
Indonesia Inflation Seen Falling to Five-Month Low: Week Ahead
01/12/2008 (Bloomberg) - Indonesia’s inflation rate probably fell to a five-month low in November as fuel and food prices declined, the Central Statistics Bureau may say today.
In search of cheap food
30/11/2008 (Minneapolis Star Tribune) - Ezekiel Asimba's 25-acre farm lies deep within a tropical rainforest, within view of an active volcano, but the palm oil that he and other growers produce will leave this remote island on cargo ships owned by Minnetonka-based Cargill Inc., destined for grocery store shelves around the world.
