Musang King in Kuching

Mew Yeh Nursery offers top quality seedlings for the best fruits.

KUCHING: Mew Yeh Nursery is promoting Durian Musang King (D197) seedlings this month.

Mew Yeh Nursery general manager Voon Choon Mew said the flesh of Musang King durians is creamy and yellowish with smooth texture and tastes sweet with a bitter tinge.

This variety of durian is not only popular locally but is also in high demand in China, Indonesia and Singapore fetching very high prices with each fruit sold from over RM100 to RM300.

Its great value has gained local farmers’ attention as more and more of them are planting them in their orchards.

Voon advised orchard owners to switch to planting new breeds of durians instead of sticking to the local variety to improve their income.

Besides Musang King Mew Yeh Nursery also sells eight other breeds of durians, namely Durian Johor Mas (D168), Durian Ang Hea (Pulau Pinang-D175), Durian Gabai (D194), Durian Black Thorn (Oqi), Durian Kim Fong, Durian Monthong (D159), Durian Ganyau (D158) and Durian Chanee (D123).

“Mew Yeh Nursery seedlings have a higher chance to survive and grow. We also provide consultation on how to manage the plants,” said Voon.

Mew Yeh Nursery seedlings are grown by Advance Planting Materials (APM). The benefits of the plants grown by APM are time saving as the trees grow faster and bear fruits earlier.

The saplings are also hardy and do not need much care and shelter saving money and time for the farmers.

With 25 years of experience, Mew Yeh provides a wide variety of high quality fruit seedlings to ensure the trees bear top quality fruits.

Other seedlings available include Mango Phoenix (Australia), Mango Chok Anan (Thailand), Mango Coconut, Mango Apple, Annona Squamosa (Taiwan), Coconut (Thailand), Nangcem, Jackfruit (J33), Cempedak (CH-28), Longan Ping Pong (Vietnam), Longan Diamond, Longkong (Thailand), Guava, Mangosteen, Starfruit, Thailand Honey Orange, and Rambutan-R191(Anak Sekolah).

Besides that, Mew Yeh also offers garden ornamental plants like podocarpus macrophyllus bonsai, Red Palm, Yellow Palm, Phoenix Palm, Foxtail Palm, Bottle Palm, Christmas Tree, Feng Shui Bonsai (Zamia Furfuraceae), Cycas Revoluta, and others.

The nursery stressed that there is only one registered Mew Yeh Nursery and it has no other branches.

Mew Yeh Nursery is located at Lot 527, 1.5 Miles Muara Tuang Road; Jalan Datuk Mohammad Musa 93250 Kuching.

For more information, call Voon at016-8092880 or 016-8555236.

Agropolitan Project at Penom, Paku

RURAL MEGA LEAP PROGRAMME (PLMLB)

PROJECT AGROPOLITAN

PLMLB is an integrated development programs that aim to eliminate rural poverty by improving income and quality of life and accelerate development in rural areas, isolated and abandoned.

The program is implemented through Agropolitan involving the construction of three major components, namely physical, economic and human capital. Physical development includes the construction of houses, basic infrastructure and social amenities. Economic development is divided into a Ladang Sejahtera development with rubber or oil palm plantations and development or commercial activities that are short term. For the development of human capital, various courses are held on an ongoing basis to help participants and members of the household to improve their knowledge and self-esteem.

Launching by Chief Minister of Sarawak

Sarawak aims to increase economic growth to 6.5 per cent — Uggah

KUCHING: Sarawak has drawn up a strategic plan, which it says focuses on enhancing its annual growth from the current 4.4 per cent to 6.5 per cent, to achieve a high income status by 2030.

Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said under the Sarawak Socio-Economic Transformation Plan (SETP), the state is projected to grow at 6.5 per cent per annum to realise its aspiration to become a high income state by 2030.

“For the state to reach its target, it needs to develop a comprehensive integrated and balanced socio-economic plan and the plan is to focus on raising the income level and intensifying the economic growth and reduce income disparity,” he told a press conference after chairing the first State Socio-Economic Transformation Plan committee meeting at a hotel here yesterday.

According to him, SETP will be focusing on six key result areas; namely Manufacturing, Agriculture, Tourism, Urban Development, Environmental Development and Housing.

Uggah added that the recommendations will be submitted to the Steering Committee to be chaired by Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem in October for incorporation into the 2017 budget.

When asked what would be the challenges to become a high income state, Uggah replied that the committee had identified various challenges – among them the need to transform rural areas by raising the people’s monthly income to RM4,000.

“And then there is a need to bring more tourists and more need to attract private investment to the country, so all those are the challenges we have identified and to transform our economy,” he said.

“Those are the tasks and we are working at all sectors; what are the programmes that we can implement, what are the issues that need to be resolved to ensure whatever programme that the government approves will be implementable and to be implemented as scheduled,” He added.

Uggah, who is also Minister of Modernisation of Agriculture and Rural Economy, said once Sarawak is able to overcome all these challenges, only then will it become a high income state by 2030.

“With all the programmes that we will recommend, we hope we will achieve the 6.5 per cent

growth towards 2030 that is an annual growth, so that is the key.”

Among those present were Second Minister of Finance Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, Assistant Minister for Rural Economy (Interior Areas) and Plantation Datuk Francis Harden Hollis, Assistant Minister for Urbanisation Datuk Talip Zulpilip, Assistant Minister for Science Research and Biotechnology Dr Annuar Rapaee, Deputy State Secretary Datu Ismawi Ismuni, State Planning Unit director Datu Mohamad Abu Bakar Marzuki and Entrepreneurs Development and Halal Industries Unit (Chief Minister’s Department) director Samat Junai.