Skim Tanam Baru Kelapa Sawit

Harap dapat skim ini dari kerajaan kerana kos input yang meningkat sekarang. Semakin ramai pekebun kecil di Sarawak yang mula merasa bebanannya terutamanya apabila harga satu tan buah tandan segar hanya RM400 sahaja.

Borang boleh dimuat turun dari laman web mpob.gov.my. Biasanya setiap pemohon akam mendapat 1 ha sahaja sebab tanah NCR di Darawak sukar untuk disahkan kerena tidak mempunyai gran tanah .

Had bantuan maksima bagi setiap pemohon adalah 5 hektar.

SKIM TANAM BARU SAWIT PEKEBUN KECIL

SERIAN: Kerajaan melalui Lembaga Minyak Sawit Malaysia (MPOB) akan membantu pekebun kecil sawit yang layak bagi menanam semula tanaman sawitnya dan juga bagi mereka yang baru ingin menanam.

Mereka yang layak akan menerima bantuan kewangan sebanyak RM7,000 bagi setiap hektar yang diusahakan di bawah Skim Tanam Semula Sawit Pekebun Kecil (TSSPK) dan Skim Tanam Baru Sawit Pekebun Kecil (TBSPK).

Had bantuan maksima bagi setiap pemohon adalah 5 hektar. Menteri Perusahaan Perladangan dan Komoditi, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok berkata demikian ketika berucap merasmikan program Pemimpin Bersama Pekebun Kecil Sawit di Dewan Rekreasi Ranchan, di sini baru baru ini.

“Kerajaan ingin membantu pekebun kecil sawit meningkatkan pendapatan dan taraf sosio-ekonominya melalui peningkatan penghasilan Buah Tandan Segar (BTS) tanaman sawitnya.”
“Kita membantu mereka menanam semula pokok sawit tua yang melebihi umur 25 tahun dengan anak benih berkualiti yang berupaya menghasilkan BTS yang tinggi.”
“Selain itu, Kerajaan juga memperuntukkan Bantuan Penyelenggaraan Kebun (BPK) sebanyak RM500 sebulan selama 24 bulan kepada mereka yang lulus bantuan Skim TSSPK.”
“Kita mensasarkan akan menyalurkan BPK kepada 1,200 pekebun kecil yang memiliki keluasan maksima 2.5 hektar tanaman sawit dan memenuhi syarat yang ditetapkan,” katanya.
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok berkata bantuan RM7,000.00 itu disalurkan kepada mereka yang layak untuk membiayai kos pembersihan, penyediaan kebun dan anak benih berkualiti akan dibekalkan oleh MPOB.
“Bantuan itu juga meliputi kos pembelian baja bagi anak pokok yang baru di tanam itu untuk tempoh dua tahun,” katanya.

Bantuan yang disediakan itu akan memberi manfaat kepada pekebun untuk tempoh jangka masa panjang dan menggesa mereka terlibat supaya mendapat bekalan anak benih berkualiti dari pengusaha tapak semaian.
Pekebun juga digalak mendapatkan khidmat nasihat MPOB dan melaksanakan Amalan Pertanian Baik bagi meningkat produktiviti selaras dengan visi untuk mencapai purata 26 tan sehektar setahun BTS menjelang 2020.”

Peningkatan produktiviti BTS dan minyak sawit adalah agenda utama Kerajaan bagi merealisasikan sasaran penjanaan pendapatan sektor sawit di bawah Bidang Ekonomi Utama Nasional (NKEA).
Beliau berkata, Negeri Sarawak mempunyai 10,417 pekebun kecil berdaftar dengan MPOB dengan keluasan 58,800 hektar.
Turut hadir pada majlis itu ialah Timbalan Menteri Luar Negeri, Datuk Richard Riot yang juga Ahli Parlimen Serian dan Pengarah Pelesenan dan Penguatkuasa, Adzmi Hassan mewakili Ketua Pengarah MPOB, Datuk Dr Choo Yuen May.


Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/04/15/pekebun-kecil-dibantu-tanam-sawit-di-bawah-skim-tsspk-dan-tbspk/#ixzz2AP2atp8G

AAR higher Production

MPOB is willing to sponsor the producers of clones and planters who planted them in order to encourage both parties to promote the production and planting of oil palm clones. Due to the high yield of oil palm clone and high value of fresh fruit bunches, the profit for planters is high.

According to the estimate of MPOB, the areas planted with clones in 2005 are about 29,000 hectares. According to the analysis of age of oil palm plantings in Malaysia, 22% or 880,000 ha have to be replanted and 120,000,000 oil palm seedlings are needed. To culture such a large amount of oil palm clones will be time consuming and the solution is to produce clonal seeds. This has been mentioned in Agroworld issue no. 199. Clonal seeds come from the selected parents which has been cloned. The first generation seeds from parent clonal palms are called bi-clonal F1 seeds. Besides United Plantations Berhad, a few plantation companies produce this type of seeds. The yield of these planting materials is approximately 7-8 t/ha/year.

The abnormality of oil palm clones is always there but the severity is lower if compared to the past. According to researcher from FELDA, the clones need to be checked carefully when they are in the tissue culture laboratory and nursery. Any abnormal clones need to be discarded immediately to reduce abnormality in the field to at most 4%.

Oil palm clones are precious. They should be planted in optimal area for oil palm growth. This includes good soil, sufficient rainfall, with legume cover crop for protecting the soil and providing nitrogen, weeding, manuring, pest and disease management. Sufficient and balanced fertilizer is very important. Research has shown that the fertilizers needed by oil palm clones and normal DxP palms are the same.

Smallholder Palm Oil Cluster: Sharing MPOB's Experience

According to Wahid Omar, Nazirah Che Jaafar and Nur Hanani Mansor Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Malaysian oil palm smallholders are makeup of organized and independent smallholders. The organized smallholders are managed by government agencies such as Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA), Federal Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (FELCRA), Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (RISDA) etc.

The independent smallholders are managing their own oil palm farms and getting some assistance from the government. In 2007, MPOB had established Integration Research and Extension Division to organize the independent smallholders and improve their living status by increasing their income.

Currently there are about 180,000 independent smallholders which owned 13.6% of the total oil palm area in Malaysia. These smallholders are facing problems such as small land holding, low oil palm productivity, lack of oil palm technologies and unorganized.

To assist these smallholders, MPOB had stationed extension workers (TUNAS) all over the country especially in area with high concentration of independent smallholders. The tasks of TUNAS are to group and organize the smallholders by establishing Sustainable Palm Oil Cluster (SPOC). They are also carried out trainings and gathering of smallholder’s information to increase their oil palm technical knowledge and disseminate government assistance respectively. The Malaysian government is encouraging the smallholders to undergo sustainable certification. Currently they are voluntarily been certified under Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) and MPOB Codes of Practice (CoP) certification.

The CoP certified SPOC will be further certified for Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The government had allocated several funds (RSPO and NKEA) to assist the smallholder certification. Beside environmental friendly, the certification will help in increasing the smallholder oil palm production.

The cooperative was established within the SPOC to administer the group and carry out business of buying and selling of fresh fruit bunches and agriculture inputs to benefit the SPOC’s members. It is the MPOB plans that SPOC will be a catalyst for the independent smallholders to improve themselves independently in future.

MORE LUCRATIVE: Former pepper smallholder now earns more money through the government’s oil palm initiative

SIBU: SALIMAH Kanawang changed for the better when she was given the opportunity to participate as a smallholder in a new oil palm planting scheme.

The scheme, managed by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), allows Salimah to earn an average of RM3,000 monthly, more than what she used to earn previously by planting pepper and taking other odd jobs on the side.

"Our small pepper farm gave us a stable yield and some income for the family, but it was just not enough. The pepper plants were quite sensitive to weather conditions. If the weather was bad, we would get a poor harvest," she said.

Since getting involved in MPOB's scheme, Salimah has harvested a total of 40.33 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches from 2.8ha of her land between January and August 2011.
In addition, MPOB provides support like fertilisers for the first two years, and soft and hard skills training.
They also advise her on how to better manage her smallholding.
"I work on the smallholding with members of my family.
"This means that all the earnings from the land are for my family.
"We are happier and can live more comfortably than before," said Salimah, who uses the MPOB-invented Cantas motorised cutter, which cuts her daily harvesting time by half.

With the stable monthly income, a labour-saving harvesting process, increased knowledge on plantation management and a support system, Salimah is able to continuously improve her business.

Recently, her dedication towards her family's smallholding earned Salimah the title of best performing female palm oil smallholder in Sarawak by MPOB.
Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said he was glad to note that encouraging results were displayed in the sector, stemming from the efforts of Entry Point Projects which accelerate replanting and new planting of oil palm trees.
"Impacts were apparent in the replanting initiatives, where the industry maintained the hectarage of land replanted with regard to previous year's records, despite high process of crude palm oil."
Dompok said the industry also managed to reverse the annual downward trend for Malaysia's oil extraction rates, contributing signifcant Gross National Income (GNI) to the economy.

Palm oil, the most important commodity, has a planted area of 4.9 million hectares with a production of 17 million tonnes of palm oil in 2010. Malaysia is the largest exporter of palm oil and exports it to more than 100 countries with export earnings of RM62 billion.

Being a National Key Economic Area under the Economic Transformation Programme, the industry is targeted to achieve a GNI of RM178 billion by 2020.


Read more: Woman's switch to higher income - General - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/woman-s-switch-to-higher-income-1.64658#ixzz2A5vWNdj9

Malaysian Palm Oil Board (Licensing)

Malaysian Palm Oil Board (Licensing) Regulations 2005 that was put into effect on 1st January 2006, require that all those involved in the palm oil business obtain appropriate licenses from MPOB. This includes the production, sale, purchase, movement, storage, commence construction of oil palm mill, milling, commence construction of bulking facilities, survey, test, export and import of oil palm products. Regulation 5(1) states that no persons shall involve in those activities unless he is a holder of an appropriate license issued under these Regulations

The main objectives of these Regulations are to regulate and coordinate all activities related to the palm oil industry, to check malpractices that are detrimental to the industry, and to conduct quality control of palm oil products produced and traded.

Regulation 5(3) of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (Licensing) Regulations 2005 states that :

"Any person who contravenes Regulation 5(1) commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand ringgit or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three years or to both "

Schemes To Produces 2,000 Millionaires

Assistant minister says success of new concept of NCR land devt shows govt sincere in helping rural land owner. There should not be any more doubts about the government’s new concept of native customary rights (NCR) land development as it has turned more than 2,000 participants of its schemes with 50 acres of land into millionaires.
Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Office (Bumiputera Entrepreneur Development) Datuk Mohd Naroden Majais said yesterday the new concept NCR land development with joint-venture (JV) companies was to help rural Bumiputera communities reap returns from their land.
“Through our NCR land development and new concept through JV, about 2,000 landowners who have 50 acres and above now are holding an asset worth a million ringgit. Therefore, we can say that the scheme has created not less than 2,000 rural Bumiputera millionaires,” he said.

Explaining further, Naroden added, “In the current market, assuming one acre of matured palm oil can yield about RM20,000, then 50 acres would easily make RM1,000,000. Although you do not make one million immediately, but at any one time if you needed money, you can sell the land to investors. Fifty acres could easily get you RM1 million.”

The assistant minister was speaking to reporters after officiating at the launching of Kuching Polytechnic ‘C U@Poliku’ programme at the campus here yesterday.
Higher Education Ministry’s Polytechnic Education director-general honorary Major Mohd Nor Yusof, Polytechnic Kuching director Clara Ong Guat Leng, deputy director for Academic Shamsuria Mohd Ariffin and deputy director for Academic Support Jemain Ental were also present.
Naroden added that through the NCR land development schemes, those who owned land in the rural areas could develop their asset without incurring any cost.

“No matter how much land one owns, that person will not receive anything if their land is not developed. Once you developed it, it will yield results. Their land will become an important asset,” he pointed out.
He highlighted that the land development concept had also produced business opportunities in labour supply, fertiliser supplies, logistic and many more, contributing to higher income for the people involved.
Naroden urged people who had their lands surveyed to participate and develop their land through the new NCR land development JV concept.
He stressed that the government was honest in developing the NCR land and there was never any hidden agenda in the scheme.
“The state just wants the people to benefit and make profit through their land. Allegations that the government is stealing land should not arise anymore,” he continued.
Meanwhile, Kuching Polytechnic ‘C U@Poliku’ programme from Oct 12 until 20 was held to bring the public closer to the institute especially in exposing its engineering, information technology and business courses. Polytechnic Kuching also held the programme to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among the students.
Among the activities held during the nine-day programme were campus open day, career talk in the oil and gas industry, exhibition, various competitions and entrepreneurship programmes.
Selected students from nearby secondary schools were invited for a night’s stay at the campus to gain experience and familiarisation on higher learning culture.
“A business centre activity is very important to expose students and gaining experience to become a successful entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship skills is a very important element in the soft skills domain that should be given attention to,” said Naroden in his officiating speech earlier.
Ong who also spoke at the ceremony, defined the ‘C U@Poliku’ as a high impact programme to ensure the campus meet its aspiration to become a catalyst in technical studies and vocational training.


Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/10/18/scheme-produces-2000-millionaires/#ixzz29bLnhQZS

More Funding For Oil Palm Replanting

The agriculture sector received a huge allocation of RM5.8bil under Budget 2013 given its high priority status to boost national income and also, for food security.

In addition, RM30mil will be allocated for agricultural development including high-technology applications in fruit and vegetable production, increasing the supply of high-quality seedlings, price stabilisation through direct selling from farms, establishment of fish markets as well as improving agricultural training institutions.


Boon: ‘I believe this replanting allocation is meant for smallholders.’
The Government will also allocate RM75mil to boost the output of food and health products.

For the plantation sub-sector, the Government will allocate RM432mil under the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) for oil palm replanting, increasing the annual oil palm yield to 26.2 tonnes per ha in 2020 from 21 tonnes currently.

Industry players contacted said the move to encourage oil palm replanting was good especially to address the current high palm oil stocks above two millon tonnes in the country.

This can also help to stabilise palm oil price which is trading at the RM2,500 per tonne range, down by about 18% so far this year, they added.

Malaysian Estate Owners Association president (MEOA) Boon Weng Siew said: “I believe this replanting allocation is meant for smallholders to help them manage the high cost of replanting and not for private plantations.”

Previously, a smallholder received about RM7,000 per ha for replanting purposes, he added.


Sabri says FGVH has been undertaking aggressive replanting.
Therefore, smallholders including Felda settlers would likely be major beneficiaries. Via replanting, smallholders yield is expected to increase hence increasing their income.

The Government has forecast the income of an oil palm smallholder to grow by 47%, from RM4,794 per ha in 2010 to RM7,047 by 2020.

Felda Global Group president Datuk Sabri Ahmad told StarBiz recently that the group has been undertaking aggressive replanting to counter its high old age palm tree profile of above 18 years.

“We are replanting about 15,000ha per year and hopefully with the next three to five years, Felda Global Group palm tree profile will be restored,” he noted.

Similarly, plantation group United Malacca Bhd has also undertaken aggressive replanting over the past few years, said its chief executive officer Dr Leong Tat Thim.

He said the weighted average of the group’s palm tree above 25 years olds was only about 2%.

Leong concurred that the high replanting allocation by the Government under Budget 2013 would encourage smallholders which have been reluctant to undertake replanting due the the high CPO price over the past three to four years.


Leong says the allocation will encourage smallholders.
On the allocation of RM127mil for development of high value oleo derivatives to transform the downstream sector towards higher production of derivatives, Leong said: “This is a good move to encourage oil palm refiners to consider venturing into more high-end finished downstream products.”

On the RM1.5bil allocation to stabilise the cooking oil price in the country, Boon said: “This allocation actually will come from the cess and the windfall profit tax (WPT) collected from local plantation companies.”

For peninsula-based oil palm plantation players, a 15% WPT will be imposed when the CPO price threshold reach RM2,500 per tonne and above.

For Sabah and Sarawak oil palm planters, a 7.5% WPT will be imposed when the CPO price hit RM3,000 per tonne and above.

To ensure food security, four new padi granaries will be developed and expanded in Kota Belud, Batang Lupar, Rompin and Pekan.

Currently, 389,000ha of cultivated padi granaries are able to produce up to 1.8 million tonnes.

With an expenditure of RM140mil, the four new paddy granaries with acreage of 19,000ha and involving 12,237 farmers are expected to produce 104 tonnes.

The Government will continue to provide subsidies and incentives amounting to RM2.4bil to assist farmers.