Peter MarajinHundreds of hectares of land with rubber trees in Kota Belud alone are affected. Hundreds of families were affected too.
The problem is this, RISDA came to convince the rubber tappers it would undertake rubber re-plantation for them at a no cost. RISDA officers also promised the rubber tappers that they would be given high-quality rubber tree seedlings at no cost at all.
Many rubber tappers were taken by this promise and agreed and signed a contract with RISDA allowing its contractors to fell old rubber trees and do the terracing, as most rubber planted land in Kota Belud is hilly, some very steep.
Now that was two or three years ago. Todate, with the rainy season since last year, many of these terraced land had experienced erosion of soils and landslides, some are very serious indeed, in various kampungs almost hitting the rubber tappers house or their neighbours such as in Kelawat areas. If you go these places, you could easily find those landslides and erosions.
There are still no rubber seedlings supplied as promised, leading to disappointment to many rubber tappers who missed the opportunity when price of rubber latex was high the past two years.
RISDA should address this matter urgently if it is serious to uplift the economic status of Sabahan rubber tappers. The rubber trees would have been at leats two years old now if RISDA planned well its re-plantation programme.
It should be matured for rubber-tapping in four years but now that seem to be unlikely as no prompt seedlings are made available. Many of the terraced lands now are also overgrown with bushes. What a mess made by RISDA.
The only ones who are happy with this situation are the officers themselves, contractors and perhaps a few people who paved the way for RISDA here. I believe RISDA also carried such programmes and failure in other parts of Sabah, and so the hectarage and number of families affected could be much higher. Now could RISDA please explain so as to clarify these mess about.
There are still no rubber seedlings supplied as promised, leading to disappointment to many rubber tappers who missed the opportunity when price of rubber latex was high the past two years.
RISDA should address this matter urgently if it is serious to uplift the economic status of Sabahan rubber tappers. The rubber trees would have been at leats two years old now if RISDA planned well its re-plantation programme.
It should be matured for rubber-tapping in four years but now that seem to be unlikely as no prompt seedlings are made available. Many of the terraced lands now are also overgrown with bushes. What a mess made by RISDA.
The only ones who are happy with this situation are the officers themselves, contractors and perhaps a few people who paved the way for RISDA here. I believe RISDA also carried such programmes and failure in other parts of Sabah, and so the hectarage and number of families affected could be much higher. Now could RISDA please explain so as to clarify these mess about.
The land erosion and landslide problems that arises should be rectified before accidents happened.
ReplyDeleteAnd it will be too late if actions only taken after an accident is happened. Come on.
DeletePromises made by RISDA to replant the rubber trees should be fulfilled as soon as possible. Hope that RISDA representatives will explain this delay of providing seedling.
ReplyDeletesemasa RISDA buat program penanaman getah di Tenom saya pernah mencadangkan kepada pemilik tanah supaya membuat satu perjanjian lain dengan RISDA,kalau sesudah pihak RISDA membuat pembersihan tanah dan belum di tanam dengan getah selama 6 bulan perjanjian pengusahaan penanaman getah secara auto terbatal dan ada yang mengusulkan kepada pegawai RISDA tapi pihak RISDA tidak bersetuju dan sekarang pemilik tanah masih tertunggu-tunggu bila kah RISDA menanam pokok getah di tanah mereka dan tanah yang dibersihkan oleh RISDA pun sudah semak dan tempat ular dan babi mencari makan itu lah saya tidak ikut program tersebut dan kami bergotong royong membersihkan tanah dan di tanam dengan getah dan sekarang pokok getah pun sudah membesar...RISDA dan kerajaan pusat ini cukup kuat mengelentong orang sabah...kita tukar kerajaan dan kita kembalikan LIGS sebagai pengusaha mutlak untuk penanaman getah disabah....
DeleteUMNO memang kuat tembirang! UMNO akan hancur di Sabah dalam PRU akan datang.
ReplyDeleteRISDA perlu tunaikan segala janji2 mereka terhadap pendudik.
ReplyDeletehope RISDA give their explanation about this matter. don't let the villager come out with more and more complaint and negative perception.
ReplyDeletePihak RISDA harus tampil dan memberi penjelasan mengenail hal ni. Janji sudah lama berlalu tapi belum ada sebarang progres.
ReplyDeletePihak RISDA ada sebab tersendiri mengenai janji yang belum tertunai ini. Pihak RISDA akan memastikan perkara ini akan dapat ditangani secepat yang mungkin.
ReplyDeleteatau kontraktor yang dilantik tu yang ada problem..
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