By Nashir Mansor

TAWAU, March 5 (Bernama) — When oil palm fetched record prices in late 1990s, most farmers were replacing their cocoa trees with oil palm except for Hamdan Buang who was busy bud grafting his aged cocoa trees with high quality clone.

The trees on the 4.1 hectare farm in Kampung Ranggu here were between 13 and 15 years old then and they were planted by his in-laws.

The in-laws were not keen to switch to oil palm because the cocoa trees were still producing yield and income to the family.

“Even now, my in-laws don’t want to part with cocoa cultivation for nostalgic reasons,” he said.

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Fasa pembangunan kali ketiga bertujuan memastikan keselesaan jemaah terutama pada musim haji, Ramadan

CABARAN utama enam Panel Antarabangsa Pembesaran Masjidil Haram yang bertanggungjawab menasihat Raja Arab Saudi, Raja Abdullah Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, dalam projek pembangunan semula Masjidil Haram ialah mengekalkan aspek kerohanian Tanah Suci Makkah.

Justeru, setiap reka bentuk dan pembangunan moden dirancang untuk tujuan pembesaran Masjidil Haram perlu mencerminkan kesinambungan sejarah dan tidak sekali-kali menghilangkan perasaan dirasai setiap jiwa yang hadir menyahut seruan Ilahi di rumah Allah itu.

Pensyarah Kulliyyah Seni Bina dan Reka Bentuk Alam Sekitar, Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), Prof Dr Ismawi Zen, berkata pelan pembangunan itu perlu memastikan perasaan jemaah yang berada di Masjidil Haram tetap sama seperti dulu, bukan seolah berada di tempat baru.

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PUTRAJAYA: The Government has embarked on a programme to educate local authorities on the ways to prune trees so they don't end up looking like bare stumps after each tree-trimming exercise.

Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha said under the programme, local authority staff members would be taught the right ways to prune and care for trees as well as pick the right species to be planted at different locations.

He said trees were important because they not only helped to beautify the surroundings but were instrumental in creating cooler conditions.

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Di sebalik rasa yang enak, buah-buahan tersebut sebenarnya mengandungi khasiat yang tinggi untuk kesihatan selain diperkaya dengan zat galian yang mampu mengubati pelbagai jenis penyakit.

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KEHIJAUAN hutan tropika sememangnya menyejukkan mata memandang. Justeru tidak hairanlah ia menjadi inspirasi ramai pemilik kediaman untuk mengadaptasi idea tersebut di laman rumah mereka.

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CAN'T wait to get in on the feed-in-tariff act and start generating your own green electricity? But how exactly do you do it, and how much money do you need to pay?

According to Ahmad Hadri Haris of Pusat Tenaga Malaysia, the process of applying for feed-in tariff will be similar to that of getting a car.

"When you buy a car, the car dealer settles everything for you - from the insurance, the road tax and so on. We are proposing the same concept here. All you have to do is go to a service provider who will be like a car dealer. You key in your details online, and you will know on the spot which tariff you are eligible for. You then go to Tenaga Nasional Bhd to sign a contract, and then apply for a bank loan.

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By MICHAEL CHEANG

The new feed-in tariff rule will allow anyone to produce green energy and get paid for it.HOW would you like to generate your own electricity, and make money from it? If things go according to plan, the impending introduction of a new feed-in tariff law that is set to revolutionise Malaysia's renewable energy production will make it easy for everyone to generate renewable electricity and sell it back to the national power grid.

With the feed-in tariff (FIT), all you need to do is apply for an account and install a renewable energy generator such as a wind turbine or solar photovoltaic (PV) system, together with a special two meter system in your home.

Of the two meters, one will measure the electricity you use and the other, the renewable electricity you generate and contribute to the grid. When the Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) meter reader comes by, you will receive two bills - one is the usual electricity bill you have to pay to the utility, and the other is for the electricity that it has to pay to you (both bills are kept separate and won't cancel each other out, so if you don't pay your bill, they won't pay you in return).

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ARCHITECTURE INSIDE OUT
By MOHAMAD TAJUDDIN MOHAMAD RASDI

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