# Palm Oil News - Guessing the FFB Price in di 2019

> InfoSAWIT reviews how falling crude palm oil prices since 2014 hurt smallholder fresh fruit bunch (FFB) incomes, and how the CPO Supporting Fund was reshaped to share levy money with growers. It notes palm prices weakened from early 2017 through late 2018 amid the US-China trade war, cutting FFB prices for independent smallholders.

- Date: 2019-02-04 · published 2019-02-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Indonesia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/60457-palm-oil-news-guessing-the-ffb-price-in-di-2019
- Commodities: [Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PALMOIL.md)

## Why it matters

Lower FFB prices reduce smallholder incomes and can slow harvesting and replanting, tightening future palm supply over time. Fund-allocation changes affect the biodiesel subsidy gap and therefore domestic palm demand.

## Read by commodity

- PALMOIL: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PALMOIL | 2018-03-22 | [Palm Oil News - The Problems (Malakama) in Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/events/65882-palm-oil-news-the-problems-malakama-in-palm-oil.md) | +0.1% | +0.1% |
| PALMOIL | 2017-11-04 | [Palm Oil News - Palm Oil Producers of the World Met in Bali to discuss Issues](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67869-palm-oil-news-palm-oil-producers-of-the-world-met-in-bali-to-discuss-issues.md) | +0.4% | -4.4% |
| PALMOIL | 2021-05-03 | [Palm Oil News - The Critics to CSF and OF](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46980-palm-oil-news-the-critics-to-csf-and-of.md) | +11.2% | +9.1% |
| PALMOIL | 2018-10-23 | [Replanting the oil palm to save forests - Landscape Alliance Forests News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/62405-replanting-the-oil-palm-to-save-forests-landscape-alliance-forests-news.md) | -0.8% | -9.3% |
| PALMOIL | 2017-05-08 | [Palm Oil News - Choose the Investment so that the CPO Tax Keeps Running](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70910-palm-oil-news-choose-the-investment-so-that-the-cpo-tax-keeps-running.md) | +2.1% | -1.3% |

## Sources

- en.infosawit.com: https://en.infosawit.com/news/7191/guessing-the-ffb-price-in-di-2019

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