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AI boom is turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres
CPO prices to stay elevated on firm demand and tight supply
CPO price dip seen as temporary, stocks to rise in November: CIMB Securities
Malaysian palm oil futures fall under fundamental pressure, amplifying the impact on other oil prices
Agriculture minister to go to London to meet NGOs over oil palm plantations
28/09/2007 (ANTARA News), Jakarta - Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono will leave for London, Britain, next weekend, to talk with European non-governmental organizations (NGOs) activists about their negative campaigns on Indonesia`s oil palm plantations.
Cameroon: CFA 2.5 billion to Boost Palm Oil Production
27/09/2007 (All Africa.com) - The regional project, "Improving the Income Generating Potential of the Oil Palm in Cameroon and Nigeria entered an important phase yesterday with stakeholders in the oil palm sector working out a modality for selecting areas that will host four oil palm processing units in Cameroon.
Biofuels not all good news
27/09/2007 (News 24), Frankfurt - Several car makers at the Frankfurt Motor Show have presented vehicles capable of running on both petrol and ethanol, fuelling a debate on whether biofuels are a blessing or a curse.
Advanced biofuels Ethanol, schmethanol
27/09/2007 (Economist.com) - SOMETIMES you do things simply because you know how to. People have known how to make ethanol since the dawn of civilisation, if not before. Take some sugary liquid. Add yeast. Wait. They have also known for a thousand years how to get that ethanol out of the formerly sugary liquid and into a more or less pure form. You heat it up, catch the vapour that emanates, and cool that vapour down until it liquefies.
Biodiesel processing plant in the works
27/09/2007 (Cayman Net News Online) - The use of biodiesel is increasing in the Cayman Islands. With further environmentally friendly initiatives in the works and not content with selling imported biodiesel, Larry Bang of Cayman Biofuels is setting out to produce it locally.
Green Criticism of Green Diesel
27/09/2007 (SR INternational) - Biodiesel is the new petroleum free fuel that will be sold in Sweden at the end of October. It produces around 12 percent less carbon dioxide emissions than normal petroleum-based diesel.
Compensation not enough, say producers
26/09/2007 (BUsiness Times) -YEE LEE Corp Bhd, a cooking oil manufacturer, says the Supply and Cooking Oil Price Stabilisation Scheme does not provide adequate compensation and payment is slow.
Edible oil production may go up
27/09/2007 (The Economic Times), NEW DELHI - Nafed, which has so far imported 40,000 tonne of edible oil, will keep a track of international prices before deciding on further imports.
Nafed plans to expand seed business
27/09/2007 (Business Times) - NEW DELHI: National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed) plans to double the turnover of seed business in 2007 after entering the sector last year.
