Saturday February 11, 2006
Preserve land for pomeloes
IPOH: Singaporeans visiting a pomelo orchard in Tambun here were so impressed with what they saw that they hoped the area would be preserved for the cultivation of the fruit.
NTUC Income Travel and Recreation Club general manager Robert K.S. Lim said they had read about plans by the authorities to develop some of the orchard land for commercial purposes.
“Personally, I feel it is a waste. The orchards would be gone forever,” said Lim, the tour leader of 150 Singaporeans making a four-day visit to Perak.
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FAMOUS PRODUCE: Singaporean tourists (from left) Karine Liang, 21, Angie Ng, 28, and Huey Shan, 22, posing with some pomeloes during their visit to an orchard in Tambun. |
Lim, who organises trips to Malaysia, said Ipoh was so synonymous with pomeloes that Singaporeans could recall Tambun and the fruit whenever Ipoh was mentioned.
“Singaporeans who want to buy good pomeloes will look for fruits imported from Tambun,” he said, adding that Indonesia also supplied their pomeloes to the city-state.
Tourist Karine Liang, 21, said it was fun to see the fruits hanging from the trees.
“Perak’s pomelo orchards are unique and I plan to come here again with my family,” said Liang, who works as a tour agency executive in Singapore.
“I also find that the fruits from Tambun are juicy and sweeter than those back home.”
State Local Government and Urban Committee chairman Datuk Chang Ko Youn said the government was working to resolve the issue concerning the proposed development of agriculture land in Tambun.
He said a meeting would be held on Monday with the farmers and landowners who had been planning to start a housing project there.
The authorities had earlier said that of the 160ha of land in Tambun used to grow pomeloes, only 40ha would be preserved.
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