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194318
Mon, 07/11/2011 - 17:45
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SMALLHOLDERS PLAY CRUCIAL ROLE IN MALAYSIA'S PALM OIL INDUSTRY
BELURAN (Sabah, Malaysia), July 11 (Bernama) -- The smallholder sector which makes up 40 per cent of oil palm planted areas in Malaysia, is among crucial components in the country's palm oil industry.
Efforts to improve the productivity and income of the smallholders are in line with the goal of the Economic Tranformation Programme to transform Malaysia into a high-income nation by 2020.
Their readiness to adopt new technologies and good agricultural practices would also bode well for the oil palm industry which constituted 4.85 million hectares or 71 per cent of the country’s agricultural land last year, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Bernard Dompok Monday.
He was speaking at the launch of a sustainable oil palm planters cooperative at Kampung Tonting here.
Meanwhile, he urged oil palm smallholders to join sustainable oil palm planters cooperatives in their areas, saying that their participation would ensure enviromentally friendly oil palm production.
The cooperatives are an initiative of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board and an extension of the Sustainable Palm Oil Cluster.
To date, seven sustainable oil palm planters cooperatives have been set up, namely three in Sabah state and one each in the states of Sarawak, Melaka, Johor and Selangor.
-- BERNAMA
Efforts to improve the productivity and income of the smallholders are in line with the goal of the Economic Tranformation Programme to transform Malaysia into a high-income nation by 2020.
Their readiness to adopt new technologies and good agricultural practices would also bode well for the oil palm industry which constituted 4.85 million hectares or 71 per cent of the country’s agricultural land last year, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Bernard Dompok Monday.
He was speaking at the launch of a sustainable oil palm planters cooperative at Kampung Tonting here.
Meanwhile, he urged oil palm smallholders to join sustainable oil palm planters cooperatives in their areas, saying that their participation would ensure enviromentally friendly oil palm production.
The cooperatives are an initiative of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board and an extension of the Sustainable Palm Oil Cluster.
To date, seven sustainable oil palm planters cooperatives have been set up, namely three in Sabah state and one each in the states of Sarawak, Melaka, Johor and Selangor.
-- BERNAMA
