Settlers must be ready for change


  • Letters
  • Thursday, 13 May 2004

After having explored the settlements set up at different stages of the country's development, this final part on Felda explores the business activities of the agency and its future in a discussion with its chairman Tan Sri Dr Mohd Yusof Noor. The Star team also caught up with two groups of settlers who are no longer under the management of Felda. Reports by DEVID RAJAH, HAH FOONG LIAN, HANIM ADNAN AND FLORENCE A. SAMY. 

TUCKED away in remote parts of the country, early Felda settlers faced hardship in clearing land, toiling on the plantation and living without water and electricity.  

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