YONG PENG, Oct 7 — Malaysian research student Haziq Ramli wore an outfit resembling a light jetpack, with poles strapped to his biceps, to wield a long pole that clipped the sharp fronds and heavy bunches of fruit from oil palm trees nearly twice his height.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 — Farmers across Asia are busy planting trees to boost palm oil production but nurseries are struggling to keep up with demand for sprouts and seedlings, risking a delay in the industry's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 — Malaysia's palm oil stocks at the end of August climbed to their highest in 33 months, as output rose with peak production season getting underway, palm oil board data showed on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — Palm oil planters are letting thousands of tonnes of fruits rot as the third year of a worker shortage has left companies unable to increase their harvesting during the peak production season.

JAKARTA, July 28 — Indonesia on Wednesday launched road tests for two types of biodiesel containing 40 per cent palm oil, hoping to conclude by the end of the year whether they are viable for public use, the energy ministry said.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 — The government will monitor the development of the palm oil industry after Indonesia announced that it has scrapped its export levy for all palm oil products until August 31, 2022.

JAKARTA, July 15 — Indonesia plans to bring in new rules on its palm oil export levy and incentives soon to boost exports and empty storage tanks, an official said, the latest attempt to boost shipments after the ending of an export ban in May.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — Malaysia's palm oil stocks in end-June rose to their highest in seven months as its exports were throttled by rival Indonesia's policies to boost its own shipments, industry regulator data showed on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Malaysia's palm oil inventories at end-June likely climbed to their highest levels in seven months, as exports plunged following top producer Indonesia's return to the export market, a Reuters survey showed on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Kulim (Malaysia) Berhad has received its first "post-pandemic batch" of migrant workers, the palm oil planter said on Thursday, paving the way for more workers to enter Malaysia and help ease the severe labour crunch after bureaucratic hiccups.

JAKARTA, June 9 — Indonesia has launched an export acceleration scheme aimed at shipping at least one million tonnes of crude palm oil and derivatives following a recent export ban, according to a trade ministry regulation made public on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 — Indonesia cancelled a plan to send its citizens to work in palm oil plantations in Malaysia, which has faced a labour shortage, its envoy to Kuala Lumpur said on Tuesday.

JAKARTA, May 30 — Indonesia's trade ministry has received a number of palm oil export permit requests that could be granted within the day, senior ministry official Veri Anggriono said on Monday.

JAKARTA, May 20 — Indonesia will reimpose a domestic sales requirement on palm oil, the government said on Friday, a day after the world's biggest producer of the key edible oil reversed a ban on its export.

JAKARTA, May 20 — Indonesia will lift its three-week-old palm oil export ban from Monday (May 23) due to improvements in its domestic cooking oil supply, its president said, a move applauded by farmers amid mounting calls for its removal.

MUMBAI/KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 — Indonesia's "unpredictable" palm oil export policies may help Malaysia emerge as the dominant supplier to India, the world's top buyer of the edible oil, industry sources said.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 — Malaysia's palm oil exports amounted to RM7.5 billion in March 2022, with Sabah recording the highest at RM1.8 billion (23.5 per cent), followed by Johor (RM1.7 billion, 23.1 per cent) and Sarawak (RM1.5 billion, 20.3 per cent), the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 — Malaysia's palm oil inventories at the end of April likely rose for the first time in six months as production and imports climbed, a Reuters survey showed on Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — The Indonesian government’s strict measure of banning all palm oil exports would likely cause Indonesian plantation players to suffer, while pure upstream players, as well as those with downstream capacities in Malaysia, would emerge, winners, according to investment analysts.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP) had on Tuesday submitted a report to the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) which will go towards lifting the Withhold Release Order (WRO) imposed on the company since December 2020.