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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
Lower inventories fail to lift CPO prices
12/02/2009 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Declining palm oil inventories and lower production in January failed to lift crude palm oil (CPO) prices yesterday, with the benchmark April CPO contract losing RM44 to RM1,925 per tonne on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives.
Biscuit baker cuts sat fats
11/02/2009 (Bakery Info) - Paterson Arran has been named the first company to be part of the HGCA’s Supply Chain Partnership Innovation Showcase. The initative has been devised to help promote best practice in the cereals supply chain in innovation, cost and price, transport, materials testing and communication and collaboration.
India Edible Oil Import to Rise as Palm Oil Declines
11/02/2009 (Bloomberg) - India, the world’s biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, may import 14 percent more cooking oil in the year to October because of a drop in palm oil prices.
Sustainable agriculture standards – can we not see the forest for the trees?
11/02/2009 (CSR Asia) - Some of the World’s most prominent sustainable agriculture standards are coming under attack – their credibility and viability threatened by large international NGOs that are fed up with slow progress. But can these attacks create such confusion and mistrust that companies give up and go back to the less-than-sustainable “old ways�
Minister: B5 to be fully implemented by 2010
11/02/2009 (Daily Express, Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur - Usage of the mandatory blending of five percent palm oil with diesel (B5) will be fully implemented by 2010, according to Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin.
Biodiesel scheme will be a success, says MPOB
11/02/2009 (Daily Express, Malaysia), Tawau - Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB) Director General Datuk Dr Mohd Basri Wahid admits it is struggling to carry out the biodiesel (B5) scheme nationwide.
PWD, Army Trucks In Tawau To Use Biodiesel In April
10/02/2009 (Bernama), Tawau - Vehicles of the Defence Ministry and Public Works Department (PWD) here are to use biodiesel fuel or B5 in April, Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) director-general Datuk Dr Mohd Basri Wahid said Tuesday.
New model to save forests from palm oil
10/02/2009 (Carbon Positive) - A new sustainable development model could allow palm oil producers to continue to expand without destroying valuable forests, its proponents, the World Resources Institute, claims. The US-based environmental research and advocacy group says its POTICO model could act as a circuit-breaker in an industry at the centre of one of the biggest environmental problems of the current time.
IOI\'ss Pamol Estates Awarded RSPO Certification
10/02/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - IOI Corporation Bhd announced today that its Pamol Estates Grouping in Sabah has been awarded the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Compliance Certification for its sustainable palm oil production.
