Meeting the needs of the industry

DOPPA encourages members to diversify its labour resources to address the shortage of workers in the industry. —filepic

KUCHING: The newly formed Sarawak Dayak Oil Palm Planters Association (DOPPA), which represents largely members who cultivate on untitled native customary rights (NCR) land, has urged the authorities to set up a special fund for smallholders.

DOPPA president Hollis Awell said one of the challenges that members face was financing as untitled NCR land could not be used as collateral for loans to fund oil palm planting.