Pricing of Oil Palm Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) in South Sumatra through the Perspective of Bilateral Monopoly Market

ABSTRACT : This study aimed to identify where the price of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) of palm oil is set by local governments in the price range of bilateral monopoly market approach, in terms of whether they have been providing protection to farmers and close to prices that reflect a balanced bargaining power, or more lead to the monopsonist price, or even lead to monopoly pricing.

Indonesian Oil Palm Industry have to be "Zero Waste"

Oil palm plant

Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture requested the palm oil processing industry to apply the pattern does not generate waste or "zero waste" from its production.

Director General of Plantation of Agriculture Ministry, Achmad Mangga Barani  said the palm oil industry to utilize the waste from the processing of either solid or liquid into a more useful products.

Indonesia-Japan cooperation in the processing of oil palm waste for biofuels

The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology or Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi (BPPT) in cooperation with Japan to enhance a variety of research and create a "pilot plan" on the use of waste vegetable oil into fuel (biofuel).

Deputy Energy and Materials Information Technology BPPT Dr. Unggul Priyanto, Monday. in between "7th Asia Biomass Workshop: Biomass as Sustainable Energy" in Jakarta" said that so far only 20 percent of oil palm harvested in Indonesia could be produced to crude palm oil (CPO).