Dufil Prima Foods, manufacturer of children’s favourite meal, Indomie Instant Noodles emerged the Most Socially Responsible in Child Centered Corporate Social Responsibility at the 2nd Social Enterprise Reports and Awards (SERA) 2008 held in Lagos on Friday, August 15, 2008 ...

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Poulterer Banvit confident of weathering financial crisis and emerging a winner. “We will expand our market share in 2009 and have no plans to lay off any of our 2,400 employees due to the economic slowdown,” the top official at ...

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The government today brought down the prices of non-urea fertilisers in a bid to help the farmers in the coming Boro season. The price of TSP (triple super phosphate) came down from Tk 75-80 to Tk 40 per a kg, ...

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Nigeria-based Global Biofuels is establishing the first of a number of refineries for the production of bioethanol from sweet sorghum. Ethanol will be blended with petrol to make E10. Global Biofuels is planning to establish the project in nine Nigerian ...

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Natural disasters and a spike in food prices have been setbacks for impoverished Bangladesh’s “encouraging” progress toward halving poverty by 2015, the World Bank said. Annual economic growth running at 6 percent for the past few years has reduced the ...

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Malaysia and Indonesia, which jointly account for 85% of global palm oil production, will implement the blending of biofuel into fossil diesel early next year (2009), the two countries said in a joint communication. Malaysia will implement the blending of ...

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The Malaysian government has approved 91 licences with a total approved capacity of 10.2 million tonnes of biodiesel which will contribute to the economic growth of the country, Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities of Malaysia Senator A. Kohilan ...

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Malaysia has urged its private sector to work with its counterpart in Brazil in developing biofuel as an alternative source of energy. Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim said with the abundant natural resources in Mercosur member states which comprised ...

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Indonesia would be able to export rice next year to alleviate a global food crisis, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda told the Australian Parliament recently. The planned export will be the country’s first in 16 years. “Indonesia’s rice production first ...

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The Indonesian government’s decision to launch crude palm oil (CPO) export tax exemption from Nov. 1 is aimed at boosting CPO export amid the global financial crisis, an official said here on Thursday. “We delete the tax export to zero, ...

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