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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
PM: Focus on renewable palm biofuel
07/10/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - The country’s biotechnology industry could take advantage of the global concern over food and energy security by focusing on developing new and economically viable renewable fuel from palm oil.
Indonesia applies for palm oil patents
06/10/2008 (Financial Times) - An Indonesian plantation company has filed the first patent applications for a hybrid variety of palm oil seeds and their production that it expects will increase palm oil yield by several hundred per cent.
Indian Palm Oil Buyers Renegotiate Contracts After Prices Slump
06/10/2008 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil importers in India, the biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, are seeking to renegotiate contracts after prices plunged to the lowest in almost two years, a processors' group said.
Malaysia\'s Biotech Industry Expected To Grow 22 Percent Annually, Says Abdullah
06/10/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's biotech industry which is currently valued at RM1.3 billion is expected to grow 22 percent annually, driven largely by the development of oil palm, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Monday.
Borneo forest people reject oil palm plantation on their land
05/10/2008 (Mongabay) - Indigenous forest dwellers in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have rejected a proposal to turn 80,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of the land into an oil palm plantation, reports the Malaysian Star.
Mpohor-Wassa East Assembly assists oil palm farmers with inputs
05/10/2008 (Modern Ghana) - The Mpohor-Wassa East District Assembly had spent about GHC 165,949 to procure seedlings for supply to institutions and individual farmers to boost oil palm cultivation in the district on credit.
Natives reject plan for oil palm project
05/10/2008 (The Star), Miri - Some 900 natives from the Berawan-Tering ethnic group in interior northern Sarawak have rejected a proposal by a private land development giant to acquire 80,000ha of their native land to be turned into an oil palm plantation.
PVMA demands rationalisation of duty on cooking oil import
05/10/2008 (Daily Times), Karachi - The government should increase custom duty on imported vegetable ghee in order to discourage import and encourage more production in the country, said Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers Association (PVMA) Saturday.
Palm oil rebound not likely in short-term
04/10/2008 (The Financial Express) - Ballooning vegetable oil stocks and a fast-declining interest from funds in volatile commodities may hold off a recovery in palm oil prices until 2009, despite its fall to a level much lower than rival soyoil.
