IPOH: The Tambun pomelo growers’ struggle for land titles is truly a 1 Malaysia success story, said Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah.
“The majority of them are Chinese who worked hard to develop their orchard.
“We have ‘bad’ people trying to take away the land that they have toiled for almost 50 years,” Ahmad Husni said during the presentation of the 99-year lease letters to the 72 growers in Tambun yesterday.
Ahmad Husni, who is also Tambun MP, said the episode was riddled with so many twists and plots that it had all the right ingredients to be made into a movie and offered to finance any reporter willing to write a story or script based on the growers’ struggles.
Ahmad Husni said the total land area involved was about 43.3ha and each grower needed to pay RM1,345 premium to get their land titles.
“The state government has agreed to waive their summonses of RM3,000 for encroaching on government land,” he added.
Ahmad Husni said that he would discuss with the state government to draw up a masterplan to develop the pomelo orchards to attract tourists.
He said the orchards would need to be modernised with more facilities and proper fencing.
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