Palm oil industry provides steady incomes for over 30% of state’s total workforce

Longhouse residents are now free from the shackles of poverty with the help of the government in agriculture and they now enjoy the benefits of palm oil crops cultivated on a small scale in Kampung Bayai Sri Aman, here today.ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE / THE STAR

KUCHING: The palm oil industry is becoming a major contributor to Sarawak’s economy after oil and gas and the timber industry.

According to the Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (SOPPOA), the industry had generated over RM2.2bil in revenue from 2002 to 2013 while investments of plantations and estates, mills and other related activites were well over RM21.9bil.