Friday, July 2, 2010

CAMERON HIGHLANDS FARMS DESTROYED

On Tuesday, about 400 farmers in Bertam Valley blocked the main road for three hours to stop enforcement officers from tearing down their farms to make way for a road project.

MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai and Pahang state executive council member Datuk Hoh Khai Mun later arrived at the scene and asked the enforcement officers to stop their operations.

The Government, they said, should not use strong arm tactics in its enforcement to destroy the farms in Bertam Valley, Cameron Highlands.

Tanah Rata state assemblyman Ho Yip Kap had said that about 110 farms were located on a piece of land in Bertam Valley earmarked for the construction of a 79km federal road from Bertam Valley to Kuala Lipis.

An action committee, headed by Datuk Seri Liow, has been set up to study the report submitted by the Cameron Highlands Farmers Association.

The committee will study how the measures suggested in the report can be implemented – so that there will be a more holistic approach to increasing vegetable cultivation and to resolving land problems in Cameron Highlands.

A tourism consultant should also be appointed to assist the committee. The committee was expected to submit its findings in a month’s time.

They will then present it to the state and the Federal Government for consideration bearing in mind that the area has high tourism attributes.

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