• A farmer in ulu Niah earns as much as RM30,000 per months (ie 60 tonnes of ffb per month)
• Another farmer has less than 200 trees and yet earns about RM4000 per harvest cycle
• Some shopkeepers in Batu Niah are reported to sell shophouses as capital to buy land from natives and plant it with palm oil
• A farmer in Selangau earns about RM7000 per month from 560 trees
• Another farmer earns about RM2400 from less than 300 trees
• A young and well paid manager resigned from the port and planted 300 acres of palm oil transforming himself from an employee to become an employer
• Two practising lawyers from Bintulu planted 300 acres in between themselves
• An up and rising oil and gas company executive from Bintulu is in the process of planting about 40 ha of palm oil in Selangau
• One story has it: a farmer earns RM30,000 from 2000 trees of palm oil
• Every family in Niah is planting palm oil and abandon paddy and even pepper planting
• Soon to be retiring agriculture officer from Selangau is in the midst of planting in excess of 1000 trees of palm oil
• A retired company executive from ABF has planted 15 acres with palm oil.
• A safety officer and several firemen from Bintulu port are planting in between 400 – 1000 trees of palm oil each
• Based on these people experiences: one tree of matured palm tree can earn in between RM10 -20 per tree per month!
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