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Plantations International Ghana Seed Orchard

Ghana Seed Orchard Needless to tell that tropical forests are endangered all around the world. Apart from the loss in biodiversity, in our view, the clearing of tropical rainforests lies at the heart of the disruption of the rainfall patterns all around the world, and constitutes a major factor in global warming. The normal propagules of most if not all plants and trees of such forests are seeds. Therefore, if one wants to rehabilitate tropical forests, or if one wants to establish a tree plantation, seeds are indispensable. These can for some species be collected from the ground, for some one [...]

Soy & Oilseed Facts | Trade Flow Manual

New Publication Explains Global Oilseed And Grain Trade The U.S. Soybean Export Council's (USSEC) Competitiveness Committee recently completed an extremely useful publication titled How the Global Oilseed and Grain Trade Works. This publication was completed in cooperation with Soyatech and HighQuest Partners, who have an intimate knowledge of the grain and oilseed trading business. The publication serves as an educational document for those interested in bettering their understanding of the trade, for those investing or wanting to invest in the commodities trade and for those interested in improving the competitiveness of U.S. soybean products both domestically and internationally. The analysis fully [...]

The Facts About Plantations International Palm Oil

Palm Oil Facts The oil palm (Elaeis Guineensis) has ancient roots. Oil from this attractive palm, which grows wild in West Africa and Equatorial Africa, has been used as a food and energy source for millennia. Ancient Egyptians used it -- as attested by the discovery of an earthenware jar containing residues of palm oil, in a tomb over 5000 years old at Abydos in Egypt -- as have the peoples of Africa through the ages. In 2006, palm oil accounted for 52% or 26.3 mil MT of the total world oils and fats exports. Soybean oil was a distant second [...]

Malaysia’s Customs Officers are Helping Keeping the Timber Trade Legal

Malaysia Legal Timber Trade More than 100 customs officers, forestry officials, timber trade enforcement and private sector representatives from across Malaysia met in Putrajaya to develop timber trade guidelines to assist frontline customs authorities in their work at a national workshop organized by the Ministry of Plantations Industries and Commodities (MPIC), Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB), Royal Malaysian Customs and TRAFFIC, in collaboration with the World Customs Organization (WCO) and ITTO, as part of ITTO’s Biennial Work Programme for the years 2015-2016. Timber is the most valuable natural resource commodity traded globally with an annual turnover estimated in excess of US$300 [...]

The Truth About Agarwood and Oud Oil

If you want to grow agarwood trees, make sure to feed them plenty of carrot shavings. They prefer to drink rainwater, and will not tolerate the calcium found in pipes. Agarwood trees like it reasonably hot, up to human body temperature, but need the relief of natural shade, like palm trees. The ridiculous trunk tapers the wrong way, like a baobab, and the surface pulsates with thousands of tiny bumps. There are many truths, sacred and commercial, about this elusive tree and his products. Perhaps the one undeniable truth, true beyond all questions, is his value: considerable. And even this truth [...]

Plantations international to Start Fly Freighting Mangoes From Pakistan

Plantations International is considering to start using Emirates or Etihad Airlines for the transportation of mangoes from Multan to Gulf states and European countries in November 2016, said Jamal Alfazi, Vice President of Commercial Operation Centre of Plantations International in Pakistan while talking to the members of Executive Committee of Multan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) chaired by Mian Iqbal Hassan President of the chamber. Alfazi has said that Emirates would launch services to the ancient city of Multan, its sixth destination in Pakistan with effect from August 1st, 2016. Emirates has operated four weekly flights with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft [...]

Airport upgrades in Tanzania Increase Fresh Produce Exports

Storage facilities at the Julius Nyerere International Airport have been upgraded in a move meant to bolster Tanzania’s fresh produce exports as international demand burgeons. The move was also meant to abide by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) that requires clear separation of the import and export cargo terminals. The expansion that was spearheaded by Swissport Tanzania is one of the many expansions that the airport authorities are looking at to increase growing demand for meat, fish and horticultural produce. “The export cold-room facility has been modified whereby the new arrangement will now allow scanning /screening directly into the acceptance [...]