Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Durian farmers to Pahang govt: Watch out for "Middle-man"

MM Online:

Raub durian farmers urge Pahang not to treat them like criminals, seek civil discourse over unlicensed farming



In a statement today, The Save Musang King Alliance said the state government should not forget history and cited the ‘Green Book Programme’ from the 1970s when Raub farmers had started their cultivation. ― Picture courtesy of Save Musang King Alliance (Samka) 


KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 — The Save Musang King Alliance (Samka) group representing durian farmers cultivating without permits in Pahang asked the state government today not to treat them like criminals by labeling them “illegal farmers”.

In a statement today, the group said the state government should not forget history and cited the “Green Book Programme” from the 1970s when Raub farmers had started their cultivation.

Malaysia’s second prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, launched the cited programme to develop sustainable farming in the country.

“The farmers were encouraged to cultivate unused land in order to be self-sufficient. However, many applications made by the farmers to farm legally were eventually rejected, leaving them stranded as they could only continue farming on their so-called 'illegal land'.

“The state government should not treat the farmers like criminals by misleadingly labelling them as ‘illegal farmers’,” Samka said.

The group also said it has no qualms in sharing the profits they made through cultivation with the state government.

“The farmers have been applying for titles or farming licenses for decades in the hope that they can pay taxes to the government. Unfortunately, the farmers’ good faith was to no avail as the government had always shut the door on the farmers, thus causing the “losses” as claimed by the state government now.

“Nevertheless, the farmers are still ready to work with the state government to solve the issue of unlicensed farms, with the precondition that it must completely halt the private corporation’s involvement in this issue,” they said.

The group then alleged that a private corporation’s involvement not only exploited the farmers but could also reduce the state government’s revenue, arguing that firms were motivated to maximise their profits.

“Once the private corporation manages to monopolise the entire durian market, both the farmers and the state government will be in a pathetically lose-lose situation,” Samka said.

The group said the farmers were also offering to compensate the state including paying for any land taxes that would have applied but were not collected previously.

Samka then lauded Pahang Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail for saying the farmers will not be evicted from the land following a court order for such enforcement to be halted pending the application for judicial review.

Yesterday Wan Rosdy said the state government has no intention of oppressing the farmers involved and that the initial action of wanting to vacate the farmers was merely enforcement that is allowed under the law.

However, he stressed that the Pahang government remained committed to acting against farmers cultivating illegally and encroaching on land in Raub.

He added that he hoped the farmers would cooperate with the state government to resolve the current impasse on Musang King durian farms in the state.

The land dispute in Raub made headlines this year after the state government sought to reclaim the land occupied by the farmers for large scale cultivation of Malaysia’s iconic Musang King durian variety.

The farmers cried foul, accusing the state authorities of unfair treatment in removing them from the lands they have been cultivating for decades now that the Musang King durian industry has become a money spinner.

However, Royal Pahang Durian Resources PKPP Sdn Bhd, the private company empowered by the Pahang government to engage with the farmers in a land legalisation scheme, insists it is offering a fair trade deal that will enable the planters to gain a decent profit.

The dispute then escalated into a legal battle between RPDR-PKPP and the farmers that have sought judicial review and won a court order halting eviction notices against them pending the hearing on their application on October 
28.





12 comments:

  1. https://www.royalpahangdurian.com/about/
    4 out of 7 Royal Pahang Board of Directors are ethnic Chinese.

    No doubt closely linked to the Government.

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  2. dun fight the perombak, feed them, thats how we survive.

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    1. Biarkan perombak meniduri bini, anak perempuan mu lagilah betul!

      犬养mfer, DON'T u forget that!

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    2. u did tat? wow. how yr bini n daughter react? come many times?

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    3. both of you best not to drag your own families into this discussion

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    4. A reflection of that famous 那魔萬 England! Now with bm pula.

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    5. not me, i dun hv the obsession to tok mother bini n daughter.

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    6. U DON'T tok!

      But yr descriptions r vivid & detail le.

      Only an EXPERIENCED gatal mfer can do that.

      Comprehendi?

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  3. Same like Bullyland, no gratitude to hard working durian farmers (Honkies). 40 years ago Pahang was poor, had plenty of idle state land.

    Encourage durian farmers to stay and work the land, making empty promises of ownership (Bull(y)Shit), now after the trees are mature and provide delicious fruit Pahang want to trick farmers via this dodgy company (TIPU) and RAMPAS the productive land.

    Like Bully want to RAMPAS a world class city built by Honkies.

    Sure, the land belongs to the state (like HK belongs to Bullyland) but what happened to the promises made to them over the decades....?

    Durian farmers are not stupid, they are understandably angry (like Honkies), want to chop down the trees (like HK street demonstrations).

    Same same lah.

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  4. Blurred mfer spreading regurgitated lies AGAIN!

    'a world class city built by Honkies'

    1st, where is that dilemma of chicken & egg?

    Based on what was hkies built that world class city?

    Mfer, the vast China hinterland that has been vulturized by the demoNcratic west, with many a Anglophile hkies as their front men/puppets.

    2nd, how many of yr claimed hkies r liken to yr angered durian farmers?

    Those HK 废青? Those over exaggerated 'millions' demonstrators?

    The raub durian issue is a pure rent-seeking tactic that has been going on & encourage by those not-to-spook-the-melayu-sensitivities gang.

    The real Chinese exhibition of 骨气 (look it up, mfer) by those angered durian farmers IS more in synch with TikTok giving up on US market than kowtowing to a short-gunned US taken over!

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  5. These Blind-Mice Club members will continue to take sneaky snarky attacks at CCP and China no matter WHAT the topic of discussion is at hand, hehe. They became impotent when their wild and false accusations were rebutted kaw kaw with indisputable facts and truths...so these pengecuts run away with nary a come-back comment AND now resort to this sort of underhand nitpicking attacks. LOL

    Merambus la tikus tikus pengecut, hehe

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    1. Thus, target yr explanations, NOT to them, but those other readers!

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