19th December, 2012
RANAU: The government has provided 655 hectares of land in the state for the New Cocoa Plantation Program in 2013, said the Chairman of the Malaysian Cocoa Board (MCB), Datuk Siringan Gubat.
He said the breakdown of the targeted area is 205 hectares in Ranau, 200 hectares in Tenom, 150 hectares in the North West Coast and 100 hectares in Tawau.
“This is one of the Government’s initiative to ensure the success of cocoa which is also one of the core for the advancement of agriculture and manufacturing sectors, particularly the resource-based industries in the country,” said Siringan in his speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Advanced Course and the Crop Cocoa Operators Association Annual General Meeting Sulawesi cocoa (PENAKOS), here, yesterday.
He said that before this, the government has allocated an amount of RM17.8 million to develop a new area of 1.567 hectare of cocoa plantation in Malaysia.
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