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MAMUJU – Palm oil plantation in West Sulawesi do not harm the farmers’ cocoa and this will be developed by the governor in the next years. Governor of West Sulawesi, Adnan Saleh said in Mumuju, Monday (5/1/2015).

JAKARTA – Director of Bioenergy, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resource, DadanKusdiana, Sunday, (4/1/2015) said, in 2014 the absorption of biodiesel was about 1,8 millions kilo liter (kl) or it did not get the target which was 2,1 millions kl.

BANDA ACEH- Governor of Aceh, Zaini Abdullah said, it is a prospective step to develop palm oil in palm oil revitalization sector. He said, palm oil industry is the mainstay sector and it contributes to exchange in non oil and gas export, including in hiring the employees.

PETALING JAYA –The rain happening in some last decades in Malaysia will make the decreasing palm oil production. It is predicted, the rain will be in the southern of the country, they are, Johor and Serawak. 

MUAROTEBO – The procurement programme of palm oil and rubber seeds which Plantation Agency of Tebo has planned was fail. The 700 million programme was fail when being in auction so the fund is returned to the government.

NEW DELHI –Having the increasing domestic demands and the good stocks of crude palm oil (CPO), the CPO price increases 0,23% toRs 470,80 per 10 kg in the stock exchange on MOnday (5/1/2015).

SAMARINDA –Based on the decision of team of fresh fruit, the fresh fruit in East Kalimantan for ten years old fresh fruit in January 2015 falls to be Rp1.520,77/kg.

PEKANBARU –Head of Plantation Agency in Riau Province said, 22 of 187 palm oil companies get Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO).

SAMARINDA – Central Statistic Agency, East Kalimantan reported, the NilaiTukarPetaniTanaman Perkebunan Rakyat (NTPR) or ... in East Kalimantan in December 2014 decreased 0,86%, that was from 104,85% in November to be 103,95% in December 2014.

Jakarta – General Manager Asian Agri, Freddy Widjaya said, one future challenge of big companies in Indonesia is that to be in partnership with the indipendent farmers.

Jakarta – The expert team of Government Regulation in Village, Sutoro Eko thought, the village has its big role to the life of the villagers and palm oil farmers themselves.

Jakarta – Indonesia’s palm oil industries have run and developed partnership pattern between the government, companies, and farmers. This is useful to increase the welfare of the farmers.

JAKARTA – The global markets insist palm oil plantation companies to implement sustainable principles and criteria and palm oil farmers too. So palm oil farmers union (POFU) tries their best to implement it to its members which is about 38 thousands members.

Jakarta – EHS & Sustainability Wilmar Group Plantation, Alfat Agus Salim said, his side commits in running palm oil plantation business and asks all stakeholders, such as, supplier in Wilmar, and the small farmers, especially the plasma farmers, to implement sustainable practices.

Jakarta – Palm oil plantation businessmen are insisted to really develop the commodity sustainably. There should be no deforestation, protect the wetland, pay attention to the environment and reduce the green house effects.

JAKARTA – A pal oil plantation company, PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk (AALI), reported crude palm oil (CPO) production until November 2014 reaches 1.61 million tons or increasing by 15.4% compared by the same period last year.

PEKANBARU – According to the result of determining fresh fruit bunches (FFB) pricing meeting team of Agriculture Agency of Riau, for December 24-30, for 10 years old FFB roses by Rp 36,94/kg to Rp1.666,64/kg from the last period price were only in Rp1.629,70/kg.

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’ fresh fruit bunches (FFB) production increasing this year, until October 2014 have reach 19.5 million tons from 19.2 million tons in last year, this delivered by Finance Department of Malaysia.

UNITED KINGDOM – Many companies which are committed in using 100 sustainable sourced of palm oil materials in the end of next year, stimulates Food and Drink Federation (FDF) to create a guidance to make the companies reach their target.

BANTEN – In this 2014, Banten Provincial Government has developed palm oil plantations sector. The development is being one of annual program.