The end of cheap palm oil? Output stalls as biodiesel demand surges

[Bangkok Post] - 03/10/2025

KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA - Prices of cooking oil could be buoyed up for years by stagnating production and a biodiesel push in top producer Indonesia that are making traditionally cheap palm oil costlier, eliminating an advantage that also curbed prices of rival oils.



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