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JAKARTA: Indonesia is considering cutting its palm oil export levy to encourage more shipments, a cabinet minister said on Thursday, another move to spur exports after a ban designed to protect domestic cooking oil supplies saw palm oil inventories swell.

MEDAN, Indonesia -- The past few months have been challenging for palm oil farmer Albertus Wawan.The owner of a 5-hectare plantation in Sekadau Regenc

Asia has been slammed by a wave of protectionism in recent months, with countries enacting food export restrictions on items from palm oil to wheat, sugar and chicken. The disruptions have sent already inflated food prices soaring, with Singapore's food price increase in April hitting levels not seen since March 2009 and Malaysians saying the once affordable everyday chicken is...

JAKARTA, May 17 — Hundreds of Indonesian smallholder farmers today staged a protest in the capital Jakarta and in other parts of the world’s fourth most populous country, demanding the government end a palm oil export ban that has slashed their income. Indonesia, the world’s top palm oil...

Medan, Indonesia - Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, has struggled with rising prices and low stocks of cooking oil amid a surge in

Small-scale farmers say Jakarta’s ban on palm oil exports has thrown their livelihoods into jeopardy.

Key crops, from Brazilian corn to Malaysian durians, are at risk after tight supplies and blistering prices of fertilizer have caused farmers to scrimp on vital crop nutrients, adding to global food security and inflation fears. Fertilizer costs soared this year amid rising demand and lower supply as record natural gas and coal prices triggered output cuts in the energy-intensive fertilizer sector. Urea prices have nearly doubled. With global food prices at their highest in more than a decade, r...

May cut use, raising food security risks.

GLOBAL-FERTILIZERS/PRICES (ANALYSIS, UPDATE 1, PIX):ANALYSIS-Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks

Key crops, from Brazilian corn to Malaysian durians, are at risk after tight supplies and blistering prices of fertiliser have caused farmers to scrimp on vital crop nutrients, adding to global...