The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has produced a new concept of snack food with high commercial potential made from red palm oil. Director-general Dr Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir said the extruded snack food has already been commercialised in China, and this could further increase China’s demand for palm oil. “This red palm-based snack is…
Global baking ingredients company Royal Zeelandia Group has announced plans to make its use of palm oil 100% sustainable. The target was set out in a recent case study published by the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature. Production of palm oil, widely used as a cooking oil and ingredient, has been blamed for deforestation of…
On March 7, the Swiss will vote on a free trade agreement with Indonesia. This is the first treaty to include sustainability criteria in the terms of trade, says Simone de Montmollin, a member of the support committee. The deal, which has already been formally ratified, aims to ease Swiss exports to Indonesia by removing…
Indonesia’s exports of palm products managed to increase amid the pandemic Covid-19. Last year, the export value reached US$22.97 billion or around Rp321.5 trillion. “Exports grew 13.6 percent from 2019,” Eddy Abdurrachman, head of the Oil Palm Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDKS), said in a national seminar on strengthening palm oil management policies, Wednesday, February…
The Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS) chairperson Eddy Abdurrachman in Wednesday’s national webinar on palm oil claimed that the palm oil production during the 2020 pandemic had increased compared to the previous year with a total production of 51.58 million tons. The leftover supply from 2019 was reportedly 4.6 million tons. “Which means…
Palm oil producer PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk. is forecasting a modest production growth of about five percent in 2021 as most of its crop were already mature, there was no acreage expansion plan, and mobility restriction under the current pandemic limited purchase of oil palm fruits from outside, its President Director, Santosa, said. Speaking…
