PAL.L Regulatory News (PAL)

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached: ii

Equatorial Palm Oil PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

X

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation: iii

BlackRock Agriculture Fund

4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):iv

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached: v

25th January 2011

6. Date on which issuer notified:

28th January 2011

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached: vi, vii

Holding has gone below 4%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights x

Direct

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

GB00B2QBNL29

3,000,000

3,000,000

3,000,000

3,000,000

N/A

2.49%*

N/A

*Situation previous was based on a total of 81,418,337 voting rights issued and resulting situation is based on a total of 120,670,545 voting rights issued.

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate xiii

Exercise/Conversion Period xiv

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights xix, xx

WARRANT

GBP 0.175

26th February 2012

26th February 2012

1,820,000

Nominal

Delta

1.51%

1.51%

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

4,820,000

3.99%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights:

13. Additional information:

BlackRock International Threshold Reporting Team

14. Contact name:

Andrew Manchester

15. Contact telephone number:

020 7743 5773; andrew.manchester@blackrock.com

Note: Annex should only be submitted to the FSA not the issuer

Annex: Notification of major interests in share

A: Identity of the persons or legal entity subject to the notification obligation

Full name

(including legal form of legal entities)

BlackRock Agriculture Fund

Contact address

(registered office for legal entities)

33 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AS

Phone number & email

020 7743 5773; andrew.manchester@blackrock.com

Other useful information

(at least legal representative for legal persons)

Andrew Manchester

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable

Full name

BlackRock, Inc.

Contact address

33 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AS

Phone number & email

020 7743 5773; andrew.manchester@blackrock.com

Other useful information

(e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)

Andrew Manchester

C: Additional information

For notes on how to complete form TR-1 please see the FSA website.