KOTA KINABALU: Once or twice a month Rita Gukon packs the tobacco leaves that she cultivates and cures in her remote village in Kiulu district and heads for the tamu or farmers’ market in Donggongon town in Penampang.
For the trip out from Kampung Sungoi, she used to pay RM25 to RM30 to another villager who owns a Land Rover. Four-wheel-drive vehicles (4WDs) are the only vehicles that can negotiate the steep and rocky track leading to the village.
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