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A delicate balance for biodiesel mandate
Can palm biodiesel provide quick relief for Malaysia amid Iran war?
Malaysia plans phased expansion of biodiesel programme, minister says
CPO Futures Close Slightly Higher, Tracking Gains In Soybean Oil Prices
Market access issue holds up India-Asean free trade pact
13/11/2007 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - Negotiations on the India-Asean free trade agreement (FTA) are unlikely to witness any progress at the third East Asia Summit (EAS) beginning next week in Singapore. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will represent India at the summit, has been briefed by the commerce department on the current impasse in negotiations.
Kerala seeks ban on palm oil import
13/11/2007 (Statesman News Service), Thairuvananthapuram - Kerala agriculture minister Mr Mullakkara Ratnakaran is in New Delhi to convince Mr Sharad Pawar, Union agriculture minister, that a ban on palm oil import through the ports of south India is in the coconut farmers’ best interest.
Indonesia to consolidate palm oil, coffee and rubber estate companies
12/11/2007 (International Herald Tribune), Jakarta - Indonesia, the largest palm oil producer in the world, plans to set up a holding company for its 14 state-owned plantation owners, a proposal that may precede a share sale within two years.
Govt rules out duty cut in edible oil
13/11/2007 (PTI), New Delhi - The government on Tuesday ruled out any plan to reduce the import duty on edible oils such as soyabean oil and palm oil.
Another bumper year for CPO?
13/11/2007 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Crude palm oil (CPO) prices eased yesterday as the drop in export volume raised concerns that prices might have gone up too quickly to sustain demand.
Lush washes its hands of destructive palm oil
13/11/2007 (New Consumer.com)Palm oil is one of the latest environmentally catastrophic ingredients that we’ve been waking up to lately - and quite literally, as from cereals to soaps it’s an often unspecified oil in many products.
Indonesia to return to 5 per cent biodiesel blend
13/11/2007 (The Economic Times), Gianyar - Indonesia plans to return to a 5 per cent biodiesel blend in diesel within the next three years on expectations of rising palm oil and jatropha production, Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Tuesday.
The \'Other\' Oil Crisis
13/11/2007 (Poynter Online) - Marketplace radio has a story about the soaring price of palm oil, corn oil and other vegetable oils. The Marketplace story says about one third of the world's vegetable oil comes from palm trees. For the last decade, palm oil has traded for about $450 a ton. Now it sells for more than double. Palm oil is the cheapest vegetable oil. Prices rose by 40 percent in 2006.
Palm oil cause of \'climate bomb\'
13/11/2007 (Carbon Positive) - A number of multinational food and household product companies have been named in a report by Greenpeace as contributing to the rapid destruction of tropical rainforest and related greenhouse gas emissions.
