Galeri: Chinese New Year visits

February 12, 2013

SIBU: Housing Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg paid Chinese New Year visits to three Chinese leaders here yesterday.

Karim: Pengawa betanam betupi ulih ngeraup untung

July 31, 2012

SIBU: Bumai betupi diatu udah begamal baru seraya pekebun moden ulih ngeraup untung besai enti sida sanggup ngereja tanah.

Sapit Menteri Pemansang Orang Ubas Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah madahka pengawa bekebun diatu udah berubah ari menya.

“Kitai ulih mujur nyadi pekebun baru nyema sanggup masuk bidang tu. Pengawa betanam betupi ulih meri penguntung,” ku iya nengah pesan jaku pandak (sms).

Karim, ti mega Kaban Kunsil Nengeri Asajaya ditanya sekalika diatu raban nembiak deka agi gawa dalam airkon ari ke ngereja tanah.

Sapit menijing direktor KTS Group of Companies, Temenggong Vincent Lau Lee Ming udah nebah penemu ba jaku iya minggu nyin tadi ba “Young Potential Development Program for Plantation Management”.

Karim setuju ba penemu nembiak deka agi gawa di opis ari ke neranting tulang ngelaban panas.

“Gaya pengidup ke diatu, sereta jalai apai indai enggau ketuai menua meri timbang ba penyulut akademik nyadika kayu depa pemujur dalam pengidup udah nempa anggap pengawa betanam betupi nya karier ke kurang setindit.

Farming a lucrative industry, says assistant minister

July 30, 2012

SIBU: Agriculture has taken on a new facet, enabling modern farmers to reap good returns if they are prepared to toil the field.

Saying this was Assistant Minister of Youth Development Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, who pointed out that farming methods were not as what they were before.

“We can be very successful as a modern farmer if we are willing to indulge into it. Agriculture and being a farmer can bring ‘good returns’,” he said via sms.

Karim, who is Asajaya assemblyman, was asked on the notion that these days youth preferred to work in the comfort of an air-conditioned environment than to toil under the sun.

The matter was brought up by deputy managing director of KTS group of companies Temenggong Vincent Lau Lee Ming in his speech last week at the ‘Young Potential Development Programme for Plantation Management’.

In reply, Karim figured there might be some truth to it.

“The present lifestyle, career, outlook and the way parents, society and leaders portray academic excellence as the gauge for success in life has created a perception that tilling the farm and agriculture is a substandard career.

“Many do not want to be associated with it and modern youths do not want to treat it as a career,” he observed.

Nangka assemblyman Dr Annuar Rapaee concurred with the view, saying that youths preferred the more relaxed environment. Dr Annuar, however, was quick to point out that they needed to climb the corporate ladder to move up the office hierarchy.

“But in agriculture, your return will depend on your own effort. Therefore, the return can increase very fast if you double your efforts,” he said.

Meanwhile, Jemoreng assemblyman Abu Seman Jahwie noted the growing potential of agriculture.

“Youths should take every opportunity to venture into farming to carve a living or make a career out of it,” said Abu Seman, who is a political secretary to the chief minister.

Lau was reported to have said that agriculture, including oil palm plantation, was a growing industry that required a lot of manpower.

He also said while population kept increasing agricultural land was not growing.

This, he figured, partially soared up the demand for food, making agriculture a very important contributor to the state’s economy.