Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Giluk Dompok yesterday urged the relevant agency in Sabah to speed up the survey of land and the issuance of land titles to applicants.
According to him, he had been approached many times by farmers who complained that they had made their land applications for some time but had never received the land title nor had the land been surveyed by the relevant agency.
“I ask those (the relevant agency) to improve this. Give them grant to the land they have applied for or at least get the land surveyed so that my ministry can help these smallholders,” he said.
Dompok said his ministry was keen on increasing the number of smallholders involved in the planting of oil palm and rubber trees as it had found these effective in eradicating poverty in the rural areas, as well as help increase agricultural production and improve the income of rural folk.
