OIL PALM INDUSTRY ECONOMIC JOURNAL (VOL. 2(2)/2002) Malaysian Palm Oil Industry at Crossroads and its Future Direction Khoo Khee Ming* and D Chandramohan** ABSTRACT Palm oil accounts for 20% and 46% of the global oil and fats production and trade respectively. Malaysia is the world’s largest producer and exporter of palm oil with a 50% share of world palm oil production and 61% of exports. This paper assesses the growth of the Malaysian palm oil industry and the limitations of land and labour
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the YOUTH ENVIRONMENT Chapter 5. & INTRODUCTION overview of the condition of the world’s environment and variations in environmental quality around the globe. It then addresses the adequacy of existing policy responses‚ which provides a context for exploring the roles youth can play in environmental affairs. It examines how these roles might be strengthened through such means as environmental education‚ whose importance and shortcomings are analyzed. The chapter then turns to the role
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OIL CONSERVATION In view of the need to reduce the ever-increasing gap between demand and indigenous supply of crude oil and petroleum products the Government has accorded top priority to conservation of petroleum products. Towards this end various steps to promote conservation of petroleum products in the transport‚ industrial‚ agricultural and domestic sectors have been initiated. These include adoption of measures and practices which are conducive to increase fuel efficiency and training
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1973-1974 Oil Embargo The oil embargo of 1973 was one of the most significant events regarding the United States macroeconomy. This event was a refusal of Arab countries to sell oil to pro-Israeli countries. The embargo began on October 17‚ 1973‚ when the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries‚ or OAPEC‚ declared they would immediately cut oil production by 5 percent and will continue until Israel withdrew from the West Bank‚ Gaza‚ and Jerusalem. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait soon followed
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VEGETABLE OIL SECTOR Of The Central Organisation for Oil Industry & Trade The Central Organisation for Oil Industry & Trade (COOIT) is the National Apex Body representing the interests of the entire vegetable oil sector in the country and has been playing a vital role in increasing production / productivity of oilseed/edible oils. State level Associations‚ prominent manufacturing/business concerns in Industry & Trade and Export Houses etc. connected with the vegetable oil sector are
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Oil Spill Group 3 Vera Lois A. Decano Kriceal Viz B. Saldon Mia Tagle Sam John F. Luison Kathe Unabia Chayya Margaret P. Golez Dominic M. Concillo Oil Spill Introduction In the recent years there have been occurrences of oil spills in several locations within our country. Knowing that these have adverse effects on our environment and the ecosystem as a whole‚ we’ve always been in search of ways to counter this major problem. The damages we receive from an oil spill
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may have on our oil palm breeding programme and how this potential can be realized. We will also show why the adoption of this technology is paramount to the progress in oil palm crop improvement. INTRODUCTION Oil palm breeding has made remarkable progress in increasing oil palm yield for over 150 years. The four African Elaeis guineensis palms brought over by the Dutch in 1848‚ and planted in Buitenzorg Botanical Garden (now Bogor) Indonesia laid the foundation for the oil palm industry in
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Oil sector in India and Role of subsidy There exist curiosity among common man about petro product pricing‚ reason for price fluctuations and government’s role in the sector. People are also confused about What is ‘under recovery’ and If Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) are shouting about their bleeding financial situation than how are they making profits and distributing dividend. Let’s try to demystify the scene. Firstly let’s understand that currently only PDS kerosene‚ domestic LPG and diesel
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Gender equality is the removal of deep-seated barriers to equality of opportunity and outcome‚ such as discriminatory laws‚ customs‚ practices and institutional processes. It also entails concern with the development of the freedoms of all individuals‚ irrespective of gender; to choose outcomes they have reason to value. It is integral to ideas of educational quality‚ as an education system would lack key dimensions of quality if it was discriminatory or did not develop capabilities in children to
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Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive‚ a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. The oil is produced by grinding whole olives and extracting the oil by mechanical or chemical means. It is commonly used in cooking‚ cosmetics‚ pharmaceuticals‚ and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps. Olive oil is used throughout the world‚ but especially in the Mediterranean countries. History The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean basin; wild olives were collected by Neolithic
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