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MPOB Monthly Report Imminent: Malaysia's Palm Oil Stockpiles May Surge Past 2.6 Million Tonnes as Strong El Niño Fuels Distant-Month Supply Cut Expectations
Malaysia’s palm oil stocks rise in July despite 14.5pc jump in exports
Malaysian end of July palm oil stocks hit near two-year high
CPO futures end mostly higher on soybean oil gains
India\'s edible oil imports likely to spurt in Feb
20/02/2009 (Commodity Online), Mumbai - India’s edible oil imports during the December-February quarter are expected to be a whopping 2.3 million tons, including 1.9 million tons of palm oil, almost double of normal.
Indonesia lifts ban on palm oil plantations
19/02/2009 (Business Green) - As research reveals tropical rainforests are an even more important store of carbon than previously thought, the Indonesian government finds new ways to cut them down.
A free trade deal gone awry
19/02/2009 (The Wall Street Journal) - After years of hard negotiations, India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) had finalized a free trade agreement (FTA). The deal was to be inked in December but now, suddenly, India has developed cold feet.
Malaysia to Provide Palm Oil Refinery Training To Pakistani Experts
19/02/2009 (APP), Karachi - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and its Pakistan counterpart Pakistan Edible Oil Development Refiners Association (PEORA) have signed an agreement that will enable Malaysia to share its technical know-how to Pakistani experts in the refinery industry.
Falling cooking oil prices ease govt\'s subsidy burden
19/02/2009 (Associated Press of Pakistan), New Delhi - A declining trend in global prices of edible oils has taken the subsidy burden off the government, which has slashed the budget allocation on the same by 63 per cent for the next fiscal.
Malaysia to train Pakistani experts on palm oil refinery
19/02/2009 (Associated Press of Pakistan), Islamabad - Malaysia will send technical experts to Pakistan in May to train the engineers on refining crude palm oil. The decision was taken after Pakistan Edible Oil Refiners Association and Malaysian Palm Oil Board signed an agreement in Karachi to share the technical know-how in refinery industry.
Malaysia embarks on world\'s first intelligent plantations
18/02/2009 (It World) - Computerworld Malaysia — Malaysian applied research agency MIMOS and Felda Agricultural Services (FAS) have inked a deal to develop the world's first "intelligent plantations."
Go-ahead for £18m palm oil plant in Mersey docklands
16/02/2009 (LDP Business) - A PALM oil processing facility will be built in the Mersey docklands in a scheme worth £18m.
Activists denounce plan to allow palm oil firms in peatlands
16/02/2009 (The Jakarta Post) - Environmental activists have mounted a challenge against the government’s plan to allow palm oil companies to set up plantations in the country’s remaining peatlands.
