Pakatan’s priority must be poverty eradication?
Yes agreed but only EDUCATION can solved poverty problem NOT TANAM GETAH lah
Sarawak BN Goons better stop fooling the poor Dayak to plant Getah
Why don’t tell the Dayaks go to school…???
Rubber price fluctuates up and down, synthetic rubber getting better (to replace natural rubber soon) but having Educated Brain best commodity Dayak can have forever….
ONLY EDUCATION CAN SOLVE DAYAK POVERTY PROBLEM, NOT AGRICULTURE GOLDEN CROP CRAP LAH
You choose lah Dayak…which one long-term best smart commodity: Educated Brain or Pokok Getah
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Kapit Set To Be High Yielding Rubber Zone – Masing
Borneo Post, September 13, 2012, Thursday
KAPIT: Kapit is set to be a high yielding clone rubber plantation zone with the start of a major replanting project under the Rubber Industry Smallholder Development Authority (Risda).
Risda has so far approved the replanting of 208ha in Nanga Ibau.
“I hope from Nanga Ibau it will go up to Kapit and the interior. The scheme valued at RM 2,817,487.80 will benefit 82 rubber smallholders covering some 208 hectares of land to be replanted with the high yielding cloned rubber seeding, which would mature within four and a half years,” said Minister of Land Development Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing on Tuesday.
He was officiating at a pre-planting course and aid presentation to rubber planters at Rumah Jeffery Nudong Jawa, Nanga Ibau.
Masing pointed out that the high yielding cloned rubber would be a profitable and flexible option for smallholders.
“A team of husband and wife can tap some three acres of land, approximately 600 trees per day. Based on the current market price, it is RM400 per acre. Multiplied by three acres so it is RM1,200 per day.
“This is very profitable. One month they tap an average of eight days, while the other 20 plus days, they are free and could do other things like vegetable planting or livestock rearing,” he said.
The Baleh assemblyman explained that rubber was also more suitable for locals.
“To plant rubber is most relevant in Kapit as there’s less disease compared to other cash crops, it is easy to manage and the rubber industry is very friendly to the natives here.
“At one time we were all associated with rubber. When I was small, I tapped rubber too. The culture of rubber is very familiar to the Iban. Compared to oil palm, rubber is less regimented. If you don’t tap rubber, it is all right. But during the harvesting season for oil palm, there’s no choice, you have to do it without delay,” he said.
Masing added that his ministry would assist Risda to encourage more landowners here to plant the high yielding cloned rubber seedlings.
Meanwhile, Kapit Member of Parliament Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi said planting high yielding rubber would enhance the standard of living for rural folk.
“Rural folk have abundant land, vastly untapped. The introduction of high yielding cloned rubber seedlings has proven to increase the income of the rubber farmers.
“The government knows that in today’s world economy planting rubber is a profitable cash crop. New scientific technology to plant rubber will yield a good income. Discard the old mentality and adopt the new approach, follow the advice and guidance from Risda, be open-minded,” he advised.
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Education is top priority: Moggie
The Borneo Post, Monda 23 April 2001
KUCHING – Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) will take drastic action to raise up the education level of the Dayak community, including effecting a change in the culture of the people if needed be.
The party is putting education as a top priority for its activities in the next two to three years in order to ensure that the community is not left behind in the k-based economy. Party President Datuk Amar Leo Moggie said efforts were being made in trying to get the community, the parents in particular to understand the need to change their attitude and concept towards education. If the culture of the people was found to be a main factor behind the Dayak’s current attitude towards education, then it must change, he said to reporters after officiating the opening of an Educational Motivation Seminar at Kpg Entinggan, Samarahan today.
“The performance of the Dayaks and Bumiputeras in particular in education is not as good as compared to the Chinese for instance. Why is that so? Maybe it is the cultural background. If so, what we need to do is to change that,” he said.
In its seriousness to address this issue, the party had at September last year set up the PBDS Education Committee. Starting next month, a research would be conducted to obtain systematic data as to why the Dayaks were not performing satisfactorily at the school and university level, Moggie who is also the Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and Multimedia said.
The research would be carried out separately under the supervision of lecturers by University Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi MARA with the PBDS Education Committee as the main body overseeing it. Showing concern as to the level of education performance especially in rural schools, he said the trend of the quality of passes for the past few years had not been that satisfactorily. The research would be professionally carried out and the results obtained would hopefully give the party some idea on what was needed to be done to improve the situation.
“This is a serious matter. It is a major challenge for us,” he stressed.
He said the people had to know that while the government had been doing a lot to help, such as providing the support, building schools, giving education funds, loan schemes to pursue education at higher levels, the community must be willing to change their attitude too. A k-based society could only exist if the people were educated and had the necessary skills, he pointed out. “Parents must be reminded that they must give priority to education,” he said.
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Enter varsity on own merit, Dayaks told
Bernama News, Monday, May 14, 2001
SIBU: Dayak students in Sarawak were told that their bumiputra status alone will not open university doors for them.
Dayak Cultural Foundation Education Committee chairman Datuk Gramong Juna said some Dayak students were still under the impression that they could enter any university based on their rights and privileges as bumiputras.
“Such right alone is not enough. The opportunity is more based on merit and the better your result is, the more opportunity you will have for admission,” he said in his speech at the opening of the foundation’s tuition centre here.
Gramong, who is State Assistant Minister of Rural and Land Development, said gaining a place in local universities was getting more and more competitive and those with outstanding results were the ones generally favoured.
Denying allegations that the foundation’s tuition centres only catered for children of the elites in the community, Gramong said they were open to all Dayak and even non-Dayak students.
“We planned them as a non-profit oriented community service to the urban Dayaks in Sibu and Kuching who are quite sizeable in numbers now,” he said.
Gramong said the centres were heavily subsidised by the foundation and the fees charged were 30% lower than private centres.
“However, this does not mean our centres are inferior as we have the same or even better facilities and the student-teacher ratio is kept low for the sake of greater individual attention,” he said.
Gramong said the foundation would operate similar centres in Bintulu and Miri after the Gawai Dayak festival.–Bernama