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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 under near-term pressure as rising stocks outweigh El Niño fears
Palm oil falls to 11-week low on weak exports, rising output
Zambo Sibugay offers 113 hectares for oil palm plantation
3/10/06 (Sun Star) - ZAMBOANGA Sibugay is eyeing to become the center of oil palm industry in Zamboanga Peninsula having at least 113,000 hectares open for investors to develop oil palm plantations.
Amid trans-fat fears, companies turn to Dr. Fehr's beans
3/10/06 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) AMES, Iowa -- In his cramped lab at Iowa State University here, Walt Fehr developed a soybean whose oil could help eliminate one of the biggest problems facing the food industry today: trans fats blamed for everything from heart disease to hypertension to memory loss.
Thick Smog In Indonesia's Jambi Province Uncontrollable
JAMBI, Oct 2 (Bernama) -- Jambi deputy governor Antony Zeidra Abidin held an impromptu meeting Sunday with a number of head of agencies and related authorities under his administration to deal with the increasingly thickening fog over Jambi, caused by forest and oil palm plantation fire.
Ban on paraquat lifted for study
2/10/06 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: The ban on the herbicide paraquat will be temporarily lifted from Nov 1, to allow a comprehensive study on its many uses
Protesters: Project will make us lose our land
2/10/06 (The Star) - KENINGAU: A proposed mini estate to benefit the poor in this interior Sabah district has instead got a group of farmers up in arms as they claim the project will cause them to lose the land they had been tilling for more than two decades.
Brazil banks on biodiesel as the next big thing in green energy
29/09/06 (Detroit News) PORTO NACIONAL, Brazil -- For the better part of his 64 years, Sebastian Luis de Sousa has scratched a meager living in the paprika-red soil of central Brazil.
Indonesia to offer 17 mln hectares of forest concessions
28/09/06 JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia plans to offer some 17 million hectares (42 million acres) of lapsed or unused forest concessions to investors interested in developing timber and farming
Strict Government Control Characterizes Chinese Biofuel Development
28/09/06 (Agexporter) - While China views biofuel production as an essential and strategic component of a secure economy and diversified energy policy, concerns about the impact on food self-sufficiency have slowed development of the biofuel sector.
S Korea pips Japan, China as Asian biodiesel market
28/09/06 (The Edge News) - South Korea is beating Japan and China in its push into the emerging biodiesel industry thanks to a government mandate that has opened a small but expanding market for the green fuel from Southeast Asia.
