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Monday November 9, 2009

Fruit trees, flowering plants for villages

By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH


MUAR: All village roads in the Sungai Balang constituency will soon be lined with exotic fruit trees and flowering plants that smell fragrant.

That is State Women, Family, Health and Community Development Committee chairman Dr Robia Kosai’s plan to beautify the villages.

Speaking to village heads in the constituency, she said she would allocate seeds or tree saplings and flowering plants required by the villages.

Time to clean up: Dr Robia presenting a grass-cutting machine to Parit Nipah village head Azhar Mulia.

“I have seen places, in Sarawak for example, where village roads are lined with well-kept trees and flowering plants.

“In some areas, the villagers even plant cash crops along the roads to generate additional income,” she said before pesenting 20 village heads with grass-cutting machines recently.

She said she got the landscaping idea during a visit to Kuching in Sarawak and noticed that the road to Kuching Mosque was beautified with flowering plants, which also made the area smell fragrant.

Dr Robia, who is also Sungai Balang assemblyman, said village committees should discuss the type of trees to be planted in their respective areas.

She said each village should have a different type of tree or flowering plants if possible, to make the whole constituency more beautiful.

She encouraged the villagers to plant trees that used to grow in rural areas in the old days but were not commonly seen now, such as sentul, jambu gelas, jambu bol and buah mentega. For flowering plants, she suggest­ed bunga kenanga, melur biru, antoi, cempaka, roses and anything else with sweet-smelling blooms.

On the presentation of grass-cutting machines, Dr Robia said it was to enable the villagers to maintain the lawns around mosques, community halls, kindergartens and any public places in their kampung.

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