A new concept for alleviating Rural Poverty by
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TRANSFORMING FELDA SETTLEMENT into WEALTHY AGRICULTURAL TOWNS
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Universiti Putra Malaysia (Mohd Peter Davis, Visiting Scientist,) Honeycomb® Housing (Mazlin Ghazali, Arkitek M.Ghazali) Duralite® IBS (Datuk Dr. Abdul Aziz Muhamad, Executive Chairman) ‘Nursery of the World’ (James Kingham, Tanjung Malim Nursery) ‘Wildlife Production’ ( Dr. Amin Babjee, UPM)
Proposed Honeycomb FELDA Community
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Kitchen
Dining
Bedroom 2 Master Bedroom Bedroom 3
Living
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Car Porch
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Bath
Honeycomb F elda Bungalo w Area / m²
Area / ft²
Livi ng Room
18.96
204.00
Dining Room
7.39
79.51
Kitchen
8.93
96.06
Bath
3.79
40.78
Master Bedroom
15.54
167.21
Bedr oom 2
9.74
104.80
Bedr oom 3
9.18
98.77
Car porch
24.37
262.22
TOTAL
97.90
1053.40
LAND AREA
393.90
4238.36
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Floor Plan
Perspective of P roposed Honeycomb FELDA Bungalow
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Plan of Honeycomb FELDA Neighbourhood
Aerial Perspective of Honeycomb FELDA Neighbourhood
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Mohd Peter Davis (left) from Universiti Putra Malaysia and Mazlin Ghazali from Arkitek M. Ghazali Inventors of ‘Thermal Comfort Honeycomb Housing’ (Mazlin Ghazali h/p : 012-221 1652)
HONEYCOMB® Thermal Comfort Housing. Formally adopted for State Housing under the Ninth Malaysia Plan by the Chief Minister of Sarawak, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud (centre) and Sarawak Minister of Housing, Dato’ Sri Abang Johari (right). Borneo Post 19 July 2005
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Building a House Using Duralite Board
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Executive Director : Datuk Dr. Abdul Aziz M uhamad H / P : 012 286 3181
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DURALITE is a WOOD CEMENT CONSTRUCTION PANEL MANUFACTURED in KELANTAN
• Strong, highly durable & not affected by rot or termites • Instant wall- reinforced concrete frame not required • PLASTERED BOTH SIDES gives SMOOTH SQUARE WALLS • Only one fifth the weight of concrete walls • Economically transported in small lorries • Very fast construction time- saving labour • Ideal for rural housing & small developers • Around 20% cheaper versus conventional building method • Excellent insulation properties for a cool house without air-conditioning
Leptospermum polig alifolium Imported from Austr alia Grows i n the des ert Grows exceptionall y fast i n Malaysi a
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James Kingham at his 2 million polybag nursery in Tanjung Malim has collected 700 species of wild fruit trees from the rainforests. Planted in parks facing Honeycomb houses, these trees shade the roads and provide food for birds and small wildlife, bringing Malaysia’s biodiversity back into housing developments. Honeycomb housing needs 110 four-yearold fruit trees per acre. A great potential market for FELDA settlers!
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This tree at James Kingham’s Nursery, Tanj ung Malim (h/p : 012-617 4193) is onl y 18 months old!
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Honeycomb Housing Needs 110 Wild Fruit Trees per acre
‘Nursery of the World’ James Kingham Nursery can produce seedlings in gigantic numbers. Seeds collected from rare rainforest trees or even trees from any part of the w orld can be successfully propagated under Malaysia’s perfect and natural climatic conditions.
Sustainable Tree Production Malaysia is a natural greenhouse and has the skilled people and good rural and urban infrastructure to grow year after y ear billions of 4-y ear-old nursery trees in poly bags, faster and cheaper than any competitor. Modeled on the Dutch Flow er Industry, Malaysia can rapidly become the nursery tree producer for the w orld- Greening the Deserts and restoring some of the Great Forests lost during four centuries of Industrialisation.
Basic production statistics for Malaysian Market
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4-year old nursery tree production Production cost RM50 Profit RM30 Selling price RM80 Can produce 1200 Trees per acre per year Nursery Profit RM36,000 per acre/year compare with If Palm oil Profit RM1500 per acre/year Nursery trees 24 times more profitable
Using just 20% of FELDA LAND can earn as much as Malaysia’s entire exports of Palm Oil Potential Markets? Oil rich Arab Countries now w ant to ‘Green the Deserts’
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Nursery Production capacity Once established a 10 acre FELDA nursery could produce 12,000 x 4-year-old trees per year @RM80/tree = almost RM1 million per year 20% of Felda estates (3%of Plantation Land)
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Export Potential of Nursery Trees
UPM Economic Feasibility Study using 20% of FELDA Land
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Compared to Oil Palm NURSERY TREES can generate over 20 TIMES MORE PROFIT per acre of land
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UPM Economic Analysis
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Malaysia’s Next Cash Crop After Rubber & Palm Oil
Export value RM31 billion/yr (equal to Malaysian Palm Oil exports, 2004) Given a contract could ‘green the deserts’ of United Arab Emirates (size of Sabah) in 5 years UPM Visiting Scientist : Mohd Peter Davis h/p : 012 335 1938 e-mail :
[email protected]
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FELDA LAND SETTLER Aziz Jantan (left) with UPM’s Wildlife Production expert Dr. Amin Babjee. (h/p : 019 246 3937) Tasik Chini June 2005
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Solving Rural Poverty with New Biological industries
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An end to Rural Poverty FELDA Land Settlers producing 12, 000 four-year-old nursery trees per year on their 10 acre lots instead of Oil Palm can soon become successful businessmen, providing far better prospects for their children and relatives to run productive family Enterprises. KAMPUNGS can becom e mass-production centres for tropical birds and semi-tame native wildlife. The Market? Urban Housing and Parks.
FELDA ESTATES are in beautiful locations. Let us turn them into wealthy agricultural towns with secondary industries.
Transforming FELDA Estaes into modern Agricultural Towns • Felda settlers & family become successful businessmen producing nursery trees, livestock, wildlife • Honeycomb housing with high density town centre & public transport to cities • New Biological Industries & ecotourism