MUKAH: Sarawak is opening up more areas of its vast peat soil land for oil palm cultivation.
Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said the state, which has 1.7 million hectares of peat soil land – or 63% of the country’s 2.7 million hectares – had planted oil palm trees on some 500,000ha of deep peat soil.
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