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KUALA LUMPUR–Palm oil businessmen, the government and plantation experts will gather in Kuching, on June 9th, to discuss and analyze the situation in workers sectors.

BELGIA – A householder products company, Ecover has changed DNA alga as the natural substitution for palm oil kernel in its products.

MEDAN – Palm oil waste could be used as one interesting art. Local artists from Medan painted on a board made of palm oil waste.

BANJARMASIN – Oilcake which tends to have fiber and which is similar to the grass for the animal (cow) food has not seriously done. It means, the integrated programme of palm oil – cow is yet maximal.

ILLINOIS–In 2015, the second biggest food and drink company in the world, Mondelez International, officially announced its plan to utilize sustainable palm oil from the suppliers implementing sustainable practices.

JAKARTA – The decreasing price and volume of crude palm oil exports made Indonesian trade balance deficit about US$ 1,96 billions in April 2014.

Coist De Ivory– Group of DekelOil has agreed with Sania, as the third local company buy crude palm oil (CPO) which the country produces.

JAKARTA – Economy Team of President CandidatePrabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa, Drajad Wibowosaid, the government should quickly push the increasing of palm oil industries.

JAKARTA–Climate Change National Board (CCNB) has given good action by committing to decrease emission about 26% from its own power and 41% from the foreigners help.

SAMARINDA–Agriculture Agency of East Kalimantan, through Techincal Units of Plantation Seeds Control, from January to April, 2014 has certified 453.285 palm oil sprouts.

BOGOR –Bumitama Gunajaya Agro Group (BGA Group) having 149 thousands hectares areas, spreading in three provinces – Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, and Riau, and having 32.300 employees, suggests to pay attention to three main things to develop palm oil, they are, profit,people, and planet.

JAKARTA–Climate Change National Board (CCNB) will attend the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, German, on June 4 – 15, 2014, managed by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Jakarta – Nowadays there are lots of sides urge to implement sustainable palm oil practices. But the real fact is that there are lots of problems too about the funds – it needs much money to implement environmental palm oil.

JAKARTA – Palm oil industry becomes Indonesian superior product and it develops in many regions, such as, in Sumatera and Kalimantan. It makes many palm oil businessmen want to develop it in Papua for having excessive natural resources.

KONYA  - Secretary of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia, Suswono, when giving public speech to the students of Agriculture of University of Selcuk, Wednesday, (28/5) clarified the accusation of exported countries in Europe saying, Indonesian palm oil damaged the environment.

KONYA – Turkey is so strategic to be the facilitator for Indonesian agriculture products to Europe and Africa. Secretary of Agriculture, Suswono said, Indonesia and Turkey could be sinergized to utilize the markets opportunities in each country.

JAKARTA –  All countries wholeover the world have agreed to improve the environment quality to minimize the effects of global warming. One of the agreements is by implementing the green economy.

JAKARTA – To fulfill and develop palm oil seeds in the plantation, PT. Astra Agro Lestari (AAL) is now developing superior seeds plantation which cooperated with PusatPenelitianKelapaSawit (PPKS).

JAKARTA – PIR Trans Palm Oil Farmers Asociation (PIRPOFA) has been ready to anticipate El-Nino or the draught in July to the end of 2014 which Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (MCGA) has forecasted.

JAKARTA – According to Secretary of Agriculture, Indonesian palm oil area reaches 9,1 millions hectares. More than 40% of the total area or about 3 millions hectares belong to the farmers. Unfortunately, there 200 thousands hectares are in replanting process.