4,000 Hectares In Ulu Lingkabau Sugut For Agropolitan Programme

Beluran, Malaysia - The Sabah government will develop 4,000 hectares of state land in Ulu Lingkabau Sugut here for an agropolitan programme to benefit about 1,000 hardcore poor families in the area.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said the rubber cultivation project which was also part of the Sabah Development Corridor plan, was to assist residents who had no land, no source of income and those categorised as hardcore poor.

“This is the government`s commitment through the `1Malaysia: People First, Performance Now” concept to help the people, especially in the rural areas, to get out of poverty.

“I don`t want to see people marginalised, not having land and source of income, causing them to be hardcore poor,” he said when launching the Entrepreneurial Expo, here, Sunday.

Musa said the move was also to enable the landless to own land collectively, as the government had stopped giving land to individuals as many had been found to sell the land to other persons or big companies.

He said under the land collective ownership, they could not sell the land to another party while the land was to be developed to generate income with the assistance of state government companies.

Source: http://www.bernama.com
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