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Strong buying sentiment drives CPO uptrend at RM4,200
Declining Indonesian palm oil exports may affect domestic supply, officials say
Soybean oil consumption falls as consumers switch to mustard, palm oils
CPO prices forecast to dip amidst surplus soybean supply
CPO demand to stay high for rest of 2004
9/1/2004 (BUSINESS TIMES) - DEMAND for Malaysia's crude palm oil (CPO)for the rest of the year is expected to be strong, especially fromtraditional buyers such as China, India, Pakistan, the Netherlands andEgypt, a US report says.
Global demand for coconut products set to continue
9/1/2004 (BUSINESS LINE) Kochi, INDIA - GLOBAL demand for coconut andcoconut products has increased considerably in recent years and it isexpected to continue in tune with the growth in world population.
M'sian Palm Oil Industry Looking To Value Added Ex
NEW DELHI, Sept 1 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian palm oil industry is lookingat adding value to its exports by expanding its oleochemical productssegment.
Price Gap Slowly Narrowing, Says Lee
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 1 (Bernama) -- IOI Corp Bhd executive chairman, Tan SriLee Shin Cheng said crude palm oil (CPO), which is currently trading at adiscount of RM475 (US$125) a tonne to soy oil, was slowly narrowing thegap.
After 25 years, users of soybean oil-based ink pra
8/31/2004 (Graphic Arts Monthly) - This year marks the silver anniversaryof the research program launched by the then-called American NewspaperPublishers Association (ANPA)--now the Newspaper Association ofAmerica--to develop an alternative oil source for the petroleum-based newsinks then in common use by newspaper publishers. The intensive program wasimpelled by the volatile price fluctuations in crude oil that were, at thetime, causing both periodic news ink shortages and a threat to theprofitability of ANPA's members.
Burmese private companies seek additional land to
8/31/2004 (BBC MONITORING INTERNATIONAL REPORTS) - Palm oil growers inTanintharyi [Tenasserim] Division have asked the government for more landso they can expand their plantations, said a senior agricultural officialfrom the Myanmar [Burma] Perennial Crops Enterprise.
China To Redistribute 2004 Agricultural Products I
BEIJING, Aug 31 Asia Pulse - China's State Development and ReformCommission (SDRC) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) jointly issued theNotice on Redistribution of Import Quotas for Agricultural Products inlate August, with contents as follows:
Consumer incentives needed to help drive biofuel d
8/30/2004 (THE BIRMINGHAM POST) - Sustained high crude oil prices willlead to greater use of more expensive biofuels, but consumers will needyet more incentives for demand to really take off, producers and analystssay.
CPO Output Surges In Indonesia
JAKARTA, Aug 30 Asia Pulse - The country's production of crude palm oil(CPO) almost doubled from 5.6 million tons in 1998 to 10.6 million tons in2003, Agriculture Minister Bungarana Saragih said.