{"id":15356,"date":"2019-03-21T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15356"},"modified":"2019-03-21T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T07:10:11","slug":"positive-impact-on-palm-oil-prices-from-implementation-of-b10-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15356","title":{"rendered":"Positive impact on palm oil prices from implementation of B10 programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgr1aJKi87Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The implementation of B10 programme, a mixture of 10 per cent palm oil biodiesel and 90 per cent diesel for transportation sectors, has given a positive impact towards increasing the prices of palm oil, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <br>Primary Industries minister Teresa Kok said the average price of palm oil for January and February this year had increased to RM2,037 a tonne and RM2,122.60 a tonne respectively, compared to RM1,794.50 a tonne recorded in December last year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"635\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sawit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sawit.jpg 635w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sawit-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sawit-555x370.jpg 555w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sawit-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said that when replying to the additional question by Yusuf Abd Wahab (BN-Tanjong Manis) on efforts by the ministry to help smallholders impacted by the lower price of agro products such as oil palm and rubber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government have also signed documents with Chinese companies to export 1.62 million tonnes of palm oil worth RM3.64 billion to the republic, involving four Malaysian companies and three from China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe agreement was a follow up from a visit by the ministry to China in August last year to increase the purchase of Malaysia\u2019s palm oil,\u201d said Kok.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides that, the ministry would also reinforce the country\u2019s palm oil market in India which is the largest buyer of the commodity and in other potential markets such as Iran, Egypt and African countries through trade missions, she added&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The implementation of B10 programme, a mixture of 10 per cent palm oil biodiesel and 90 per cent diesel for transportation sectors, has given a positive impact towards increasing the prices of palm oil, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Primary Industries minister Teresa Kok said the average price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}