PALM oil industry produces vast amount of biomass, mainly from milling sector, including empty fruit bunches (EFBs). Those are what remains of the fresh fruit bunches after the fruit has been removed for oil pressing.
TANA PASER-Paser Regency in East Kalimantan has met its target to replant 4.000 oil palm plantations under the government\'s Smallholders Oil Palm Replanting Program in 2019. The Indonesia Oil Palm Plantations Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS) has granted Rp100 billions to support the program.
JAKARTA-Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has announced Biofuel Market Price Index (MPI), included biodiesel and bioethanol for period of January 2020 and it goes into effect on 1 January 2020. Biodiesel MPI is set at Rp8.706 per liter and bioethanol at Rp10.424 per liter.
JAKARTA-The Trade Ministry has issued a crude palm oil (CPO) reference price for January 2020 of US$729.72 per metric ton (MT). The reference price, which is to be used for export tariff pricing, rose 12.23% to US$79.54 from December 2019 at US$650.18/MT.
