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Kawalan longgar lori sampah bebas memasuki pusat pelupusan haram

Kelihatan MPS berkawal dijalan masuk ke pusat pelupusan haram disebelah petang. Lori sampah haram masih mampu memasuki kawasan tersebut apabila MPS tidak berada dikawasan kawalan.

Ini menjadikan pusat tersebut masih terdapat sampah. Hasilnya, kini kawasan taman dipenuhi lalat sehingga ke dalam kawasan kediaman. Anjing-anjing liar sudah mula kelihatan dikawasan taman.

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Kawalan longgar lori sampah bebas memasuki pusat pelupusan haram

Kelihatan MPS berkawal dijalan masuk ke pusat pelupusan haram disebelah petang. Lori sampah haram masih mampu memasuki kawasan tersebut apabila MPS tidak berada dikawasan kawalan.

Ini menjadikan pusat tersebut masih terdapat sampah. Hasilnya, kini kawasan taman dipenuhi lalat sehingga ke dalam kawasan kediaman. Anjing-anjing liar sudah mula kelihatan dikawasan taman.

Ini semua memburukan kawasan sekitar taman dari segi kesihatan dan bahaya digigit anjing liar.

Palm Oil Output in Malaysia to Gain in 2011, Yusof Predicts

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Palm oil production in Malaysia, the second-biggest grower after Indonesia, may gain this year as an improvement in the weather after excessive rain aids yields, an industry group said, forecasting lower prices. Futures plunged.

Output may be 17.6 million metric tons compared with 17 million in 2010, Yusof Basiron, chief executive officer of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, said in an interview yesterday. That would match production in 2009 and compare with 2008's record of 17.7 million tons, according to official data.

Increased supplies and lower prices may help cool global food costs that reached a record in January according to the United Nations' World Food Price Index. Palm oil has rallied 30 percent in the past year as floods hurt harvests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Soybeans, crushed to make a rival oil, have jumped 36 percent, tracking advances in wheat, corn and sugar.

"Higher production estimates will put pressure on the markets," Veeresh Hiremath, associate chief analyst at Karvy Comtrade Ltd., said from Hyderabad, India today. "In the short term, the market will be in the bearish trend" due to the better output forecast and improving weather, Hiremath said.

The May-delivery contract plunged as much as 5.1 percent to 3,336 ringgit ($1,088) per metric ton, the lowest price in almost three months, before trading at 3,378 ringgit at 3:44 p.m. in Kuala Lumpur. The drop extended yesterday's 4.2 percent slump.

'Become Expensive'

"Palm goes into almost every food product, and if palm and associate oils like soy become expensive, it will impact food prices," said Yusof, who's worked in the industry for 32 years. If Malaysia can export more palm oil it will help ease shortages and prevent food costs from rising, he said yesterday. The council markets and promotes the oil, according to its website.

Malaysia's Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Bernard Dompok told reporters today that palm oil exports may be better this year than in 2010. The country intends to boost palm oil yields and accelerate replanting, Dompok said.

Malaysian palm oil exports increased to 16.7 million tons last year, worth 59.8 billion ringgit, compared with the 15.9 million tons that were shipped in 2009, according to data from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board.

"Rain is plentiful, not enough to cause floods, but enough to induce growth and vigor in the production processes of oil palms," Yusof said. "We could expect normalization of production back to what it should be from March."

Production in January declined 14.2 percent from a month earlier to 1.06 million tons, the lowest level since February 2007, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board. Stockpiles shrank to 1.4 million tons, the smallest amount since July.

La Nina

A La Nina weather event, which can bring excessive rain to Southeast Asia and drier-than-usual conditions to parts of Latin America, including the soybean- and corn-growing areas in Argentina and Brazil, is showing signs of weakening, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

Malaysia's palm oil reserves will be replenished by the second half of 2011 as yields improve, leading to a softening in prices, said Yusof. Crude palm oil may average 3,500 ringgit a ton this year, he said. Futures had reached a 35-month high of 3,967 ringgit a ton on Feb. 10.

Yusof joins ECM Libra Capital Sdn. and Credit Suisse Group AG in forecasting a drop in palm oil prices as the effects of the La Nina taper off. Palm oil may be close to peaking, Credit Suisse said in a report on Feb. 17.

Most increased production in Malaysia would need to come from boosting yields as there was little available land left to expand plantations, Yusof said. His comments echo 2006 remarks from Peter Chin Fah Kui, an earlier plantations minister.

--With assistance from Manirajan Ramasamy in Kuala Lumpur. Editors: Jake Lloyd-Smith, Jarrett Banks

To contact the reporter on this story: Ranjeetha Pakiam in Kuala Lumpur at rpakiam@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: James Poole at jpoole4@bloomberg.net

Sarawak palm oil industry to generate RM35 billion annually latest!

Posted on April 9, 2011, Saturday

KUCHING: Sarawak is the final frontier of the Malaysian oil palm industry, a major source of revenue that is strategic to rural development, according to planters in the state.

Although the industry in Sarawak which started in earnest in the late 1980s has yet to realise its full potential, it has already brought great benefits to the state, including infrastructure development in the rural areas, they said.

"Oil palm is a strategic industry for rural centric development and can alleviate poverty," Datuk Abdul Hamed Sepawi, chairman of the Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association, told Bernama.

"If not oil palm, what then is the alternative for rural growth and economic development in Malaysia?" he asked.

Oil palm has been planted on 1.1 million hectares of state and native customary rights land, whose owners enjoy a share of dividends.

The state government has earmarked two million hectares or 15 per cent of state land for oil palm plantation.

Hamed recalled that oil palm was the economic security crop for Malaysia during the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98, when it was one of the most important sources of foreign exchange.

"The industry adopts sustainable practices using standard operation procedures to ensure that it will continue to bring prosperity to the state," Hamed said.

He said the association worked closely with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board and research organisations to make certain that good management practices and the sustainability approach were observed.

"We look forward to working with the government in setting up a dedicated oil palm plantation institution in Sarawak to develop all the skills the industry needs," Hamed added.

Association secretary Philip Ho said the industry could generate massive opportunities for people in different professions.

Right now, there was a shortage of workers, making necessary recruitment from outside, he said.

Ho said that plantations had a lifespan of over 30 years per cycle.

Projecting future income, he said: At an average of 25-30 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches per hectare and at RM700 per tonne, two million hectares can generate around RM35 billion annually to the state."

From 2001 to 2009, he noted, the oil palm industry in Sarawak contributed RM916 million to the tax revenue of the state. – Bernama

TDI - Rancangan Pagar Taman.

Persatuan penduduk TDI merancang untuk membina pagar disekeliling taman bagi menjaga keselamatan dan kesejahteraan penduduk.

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Pentingnya pagar ini kepada penduduk kerana membantu dari segi keselamatan dari pencuri-pencuri. Beberapa kes kecurian telah berlaku di kawasan taman yang masih tidak berpagar.

Namun pihak persatuan tidak berhenti disitu sahaja, AJK telah mengambil khidmat kawalan dari orang perseorangan bagi mengawal kawasan taman.

Setakat ini, kawalan yang dilakukan dapat menghindarkan berlakunya jenayah kecurian di kawasan taman. Kos perkhidmatan kawalan ditanggung oleh penduduk taman yang mana didapat agak tinggi kerana warga taman tidak sepenuhnya sepakat dalam membayar yuran dikutip secara bulanan.

Dengan adanya pagar taman berkemungkinan dapat meringankan beban membayar yuran tersebut.

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