Counting on Malaysia’s Top Fruits

By JOY LEE

Fair pricing: Tan hopes to see more reasonable prices of the durian in the future.

LONG before durians were a hot commodity, Tan Sue Yee’s family was already converting parts of their oil palm plantation into durian orchards.

According to Tan, at 500acres, Top Fruits Sdn Bhd currently has one of the largest mature durian plantations in town.

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Fair pricing: Tan hopes to see more reasonable prices of the durian in the future.

Fruitful endeavour: The durian exporter has enjoyed good growth so far with its fruits and ingredient supply business.

Retail route: Top Fruits will be opening more kiosks to sell its products like soft-serve ice-cream.

Increased production: Annual durian production is estimated to double to 500,000 tonnes by 2023.

Upstream strength: The company has some 500acres of durian plantation land to support its operations.

Sizeable capacity: It has five factories around the country catered to different manufacturing needs.

Supporting others: The company also works with other durian growers to apply modern farming methods.

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