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French Firms Pull The Plug On Palm Oil

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French firms have stepped up restrictions on the use of palm oil, decried for being linked to deforestation in Asia, in a move that may boost demand for local oils. But some warned it could raise new food and land problems. The debate about palm oil’s impact on the environment has intensified after green groups
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Indonesia Defends Converting Peatlands To Palm Estates

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“Some companies are interested in peatlands and we are working with those who want to safeguard the environment and ensure our country’s prosperity.” PALM PROTESTS: Protesters from Greenpeace, dressed as orangutans, demonstrating outside the Unilever building in London last year. Greenpeace said it wanted to raise awareness of companies who buy palm oil from companies
Crops, Oilseeds

Keep Malathion Away From Canola Storage

The Canola Council of Canada is reminding growers to keep their canola storage bins free of the insecticide malathion this fall. Malathion is not registered to treat bins that will store canola or to control insects in stored canola. Every country that buys Canadian canola sets limits on pesticide residues, and exceeding those limits can
News, Oilseeds

Canola Staking New Ground As Food Additive

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“Globally, there’s a deficiency of proteins, particularly high-quality proteins.” It dresses salads, fuels cars and fries foods, and now the canola plant is muscling in on soy with plans for the first commercial production of its protein as a food additive. Two Canadian companies, Bio Extraction Inc. and Burcon Nutrascience Corp., are aiming to become
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Jatropha Not A Miracle Crop

Jatropha, often hailed as a rich source of biodiesel that flourishes in semiarid areas of Africa, is hard to grow and often fails if farmers lack expertise, an executive of a company developing the crop said. Vincent Volckaert, the Africa regional director for biofuels technology firm D1 Oils, dismissed the idea jatropha can produce a
Crops, Oilseeds

DuPont Tests Market For High-Oleic Soy Oil

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DuPont Co. hopes to roll out this year what could be the world’s first genetically modified soybean seed aimed at health-conscious consumers and the food companies that serve them, company officials said. Regulatory approval is pending, but DuPont is already testing the product with food processors to gauge demand and pricing. A small-scale introduction is
News, Oilseeds

High-Oleic Canola Seeing Continued Growth In Canada

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Improving agronomics and economics are making specialty high-oleic canola varieties (also known as high stability, omega-9, or low linoleic) a more favour-able choice for western Canadian farmers, according to industry participants. Acres are expected to continue to increase in 2009. Canadian farmers planted about 16.1 million acres of canola in 2008-09 (August/ July), harvesting a
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Malaysia may scrap palm oil windfall tax

Malaysia may scrap a windfall tax on palm oil if the price rises further, the country’s Commodities Minister Peter Chin was quoted as saying Jan. 19 by state news agency Bernama. The Malaysian government in June imposed a windfall tax on crude palm oil sales of above 2,000 ringgit (US$559.3) per tonne, following a surge
Oilseeds, Other

Canola oil content improving

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The oil content in Canada’s 2008-09 canola crop has improved over the level seen during 2007-08 and is also above the 10-year average, according to industry sources. Samples of No. 1 Canada canola tested to data have an improved oil content than in previous years, according to Veronique Barthet, program , manager, for the Oilseeds
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India considers oil import tax

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India is considering to tax vegetable oil imports to protect the domestic industry from a slump in prices and lift a ban on exports, the farm minister said Oct. 19. Sharad Pawar also said the government would consider scrapping an export tax of 8,000 rupees (US$162.30) per tonne on basmati rice. “Global edible oil prices

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