Sabah farmers to challenge Sarawak's reign as top pepper producers


KOTA KINABALU: The King of spice - pepper - has always been associated with Sarawak with the state cultivating almost 98% of this crop in Malaysia.

However, farmers from neighbouring Sabah have also started venturing into farming peppers and recently even managed to penetrate the local market.

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Pepper , Agriculture , Sabah , Dennison R. Indang

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