KUALA LUMPUR: Sabah and Sarawak have the potential to be major players in domestic rubber plantations due to the availability of large tracts of land suitable for commercial agriculture, a senior official from the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) said.
“The additional new planting of 25,000ha in Sabah and 5,000ha in Sarawak by government agencies under the Ninth Malaysia Plan will enable an additional production of 35,000 tonnes (of rubber) a year by next year,” said Dariman Darham, the Sabah regional office director of MRB.
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