December 20, 2008 15:02 PM
20,000 Hectare ladang Rakyat For The Poor In Terengganu
HULU TERENGGANU, Dec 20 (Bernama) -- The Terengganu government is setting up a 20,000 hectare "Ladang Rakyat" (People's Estate) for oil palm planting next year to help the hardcore poor in the state.
Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the project, costing RM100 million, would benefit 6,000 hardcore poor, including single mothers, in Terengganu.
He said the project would be carried out in stages, with the first, covering 8,000 hectare to be set up in Dungun and another 6,000 hectare in Setiu.
"If we can't get a suitable site in Terengganu, we may buy land in other states so that we can get 20,000 hectares for the project," he said after launching a programme to increase family household income and planting of oil palm in housing compound at Kampung Payang Kayu here, Friday.
In another development, Ahmad said the state government had approved a RM20 million allocation for repair of houses belonging to the poor in the state.
-- BERNAMA
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