TRANSFORMING FELDA SETTLEMENT

UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA

into
WEALTHY AGRICULTURAL TOWNS
A new concept for alleviating Rural Poverty

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Honeycomb® Housing (Mazlin Ghazali, Arkitek M.Ghazali)

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Duralite® IBS (Datuk Dr. Abdul Aziz Muhamad, Executive Chairman)
‘Nursery of the World’ (James Kingham, Tanjung Malim Nursery)

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‘Wildlife Production’ ( Dr. Amin Babjee, UPM)
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Proposed Honeycomb FELDA Community

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Kitchen Dining Bedroom 2 Master Bedroom

Bedroom 3
Living
Bath

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Car Porch

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Floor Plan
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Area / m² Area / ft²

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Dining Room 7.39 79.51
Kitchen 8.93 96.06
Bath 3.79 40.78
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Master Bedroom 15.54 167.21

Bedr oom 2 9.74 104.80
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Bedr oom 3 9.18 98.77

Car porch 24.37 262.22
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TOTAL 97.90 1053.40

LAND AREA 393.90 4238.36
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Perspective of P roposed Honeycomb FELDA Bungalow

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Plan of Honeycomb FELDA Neighbourhood
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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)
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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
Executive Director : Datuk Dr. Abdul Aziz M uhamad
H / P : 012 286 3181

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DURALITE is a WOOD CEMENT CONSTRUCTION PANEL

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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
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110 Wild Fruit Trees per acre
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Leptospermum polig alifolium

Imported from Austr alia

Grows i n the des ert
Grows exceptionall y fast i n
Malaysi a
This tree at James Kingham’s
Nursery, Tanj ung Malim

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(h/p : 012-617 4193) is onl y 18
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James Kingham at his 2 million
polybag nursery in Tanjung

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Malim has collected 700
species of wild fruit trees from

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the rainforests. Planted in parks
facing Honeycomb houses,
these trees shade the roads and
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biodiversity back into housing
developments. Honeycomb
housing needs 110 four-year-
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old fruit trees per acre.

A great potential market for
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FELDA settlers!
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‘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.
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After
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Rubber & Palm Oil

Basic production statistics

for Malaysian Market
UPM Economic

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Analysis 4-year old nursery tree production
Production cost RM50

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Compared to Oil Palm Profit RM30

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NURSERY TREES Selling price RM80
can generate over Can produce 1200 Trees per acre per year
20 TIMES MORE PROFIT Nursery Profit RM36,000 per acre/year

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If Palm oil Profit RM1500 per acre/year
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Feasibility Study
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using 20% of FELDA Land

Export Potential Nursery Production capacity
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Once established a 10 acre FELDA nursery

of Nursery Trees could produce 12,000 x 4-year-old trees
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Using just 20% of FELDA LAND per year

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can earn as much as @RM80/tree = almost RM1 million

Malaysia’s entire exports
of Palm Oil
per year
Potential Markets? 20% of Felda estates
Oil rich Arab Countries now (3%of Plantation Land)
w ant to
‘Green the Deserts’
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 : mohd_peter@hotmail.com
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New Biological industries

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FELDA LAND SETTLER

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Aziz Jantan (left) with
UPM’s Wildlife Production
expert Dr. Amin Babjee.
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(h/p : 019 246 3937)
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Tasik Chini June 2005

An end to Rural Poverty FELDA Land Settlers producing 12, 000 four-year-old nursery trees per year
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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
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mass-production centres for tropical birds and semi-tame native wildlife. The Market? Urban
Housing and Parks.
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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