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Malaysia's total palm oil stocks surge 24.54% to 3.51mil tonnes in Sept
CPO Futures Close Lower On Weaker Soybean Oil Prices
Palm oil falls to 11-week low on weak exports, rising output
CPO Futures End Lower In Line With Weak Regional Vegetable Oil Markets
Palm Oil production regain in December
21/02/2009 (Solomon Star News) - PALM oil production bounced back in December of last year after recording slow movements.
Oil-Palm Smallholders to Get Sustainable Farming Training
21/02/2009 (Jakarta Globe) - Small-scale oil-palm farmers are being encouraged to go green, and will be provided with training on how to run their plantations without harming the environment, Achmad Mangga Barani, the director general of plantations said at the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday.
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."
