10 June 2013| last updated at 12:22AM
BETTER FUTURE: Rubber production to increase from 1,400kg to 2,000kg per hectare in Sabah
KOTA KINABALU: THE Sabah Rubber Industry Board (SRIB) will assist smallholders to earn a monthly income of between RM3,000 and RM4,000 by 2020.Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Yahya Hussin said the board would increase rubber hectarage from the present 94,000ha to 130,000ha.
"It will help 12,000 smallholders increase Sabah's annual production of rubber from the present 1,398kg to 2,000kg per hectare seven years from now," he said during SRIB's 63th anniversary dinner last Saturday.
The board would also increase the production of Malaysian Rubber Standard from 50,000 tonnes to 80,000 tonnes per year.
Yahya, who is also state agriculture and food industry minister, commended SRIB for its efforts to reduce poverty.
"When the poverty eradication programme Gana Agropolitan is implemented in Kota Marudu, it will benefit 450 families in the district."
He said 4,323ha had been planted with rubber at a cost of RM40.6 million last year under the National Key Economic Area.
As for this year, 3,215ha had been allocated for rubber planting. This will be carried out by 1,016 smallholders.
Yahya added that rubber would be replanted on 1,288ha by 414 smallholders.
Sabah
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Yahya Hussin (second from left)
presenting the Best Settler Award to K.K. William K.K. Rumeja, who is
from the Kanibongan Pitas rubber estate, during the Sabah Rubber
Industry Board’s 63rd anniversary dinner in Kota Kinabalu last
Saturday. With them are SRIB chairman Ahmad Bujang (left) and general
manager Datuk Harris Mathews. Pic by Mohd Adam Arinin
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