D-8 Holds the Meeting on Renewable Energy today in Ankara, attended by delegations from Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey
The First Session of the D-8 Working Committee on Renewable Energy was held in Ankara, Turkey on June…

Akenerji's Ahmet Ümit Danışman (L) and Polat Enerji's Zeki Eriş sign an agreement in Istanbul on Monday
Akenerji, one of the leading Turkish private energy companies, will have a chance to benefit from Polat Enerji’s wind turbine production capacity thanks…

Indonesia is seriously fighting climate change, most recently by pledging to cut emissions at least 26 percent by 2020. (Photo: Presi Mandari/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images)
Indonesia has declared a two-year moratorium on clearing natural forests as part of a…

The Indonesia-Malaysia Palm Oil Group brings together six organizations from the two nations, which account for 85 percent of global production.
Palm oil producers from Malaysia said on Wednesday they had formed a coalition with their counterparts in Indonesia to…

Bangladesh is interested to have a government-to-government buying arrangement to ensure there is steady supply and price of palm oil
The Bangladeshi government is keen to procure palm oil from Malaysia using its state-owned trading arm to ensure consistent edible…

The Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Malaysia as chairman of the D8 Organisation for Economic Cooperation, was commited to achieve the Kuala Lumpur Initiative of strengthening collaboration in production and distribution of quality agriculture inputs
The…

D-8 Secretary General, H.E Dipo Alam, in his statement stated that the “Kuala Lumpur Initiative” provides a pragmatic approach to determine the scope of cooperation amongst the D-8 Countries
The United Nations hosted a World Food Summit between November 16…

Oil palm plantations on average produce 3.9 tons of oil per hectare per year
The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Orion Genomics announced on November 9, that a consortium co-led by the Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre of MPOB…

The usage of palm oil is still relatively limited to edible items, and has not yet effectively explored for the usage in bio-diesel purposes
Malaysia has made an offer to the Turkish government to refine crude palm oil in Turkey…

Bangladesh expects a summer rice crop of 19 million tonnes
Bangladesh expects a summer rice crop of 19 million tonnes, 1 million tonnes above target, because of a rise in cultivated area, a senior official of the agriculture ministry said…