Semada Belatok

SRI AMAN: Agricultural activities to help the people in Sri Aman parliamentary constituency will be intensified through eight core areas. Sri Aman MP Masir Kujat said the eight areas are commercial farming, planting of “Gaharu” trees, rearing of fresh water fish, goats rearing, livestocks rearing, commercial padi planting, commercial pepper planting and the implementation of contract farming.

He told reporters that all the farming activities were to increase food products while at the same time help to improve the livelihood of the locals. Earlier he chaired Sri Aman Parliamentary Agriculture Development Council (MPPP), together with the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (Fama) state deputy director Isa Hamzah and other government agencies.

Asked what he meant by commercial farming, Masir explained that it included the planting lemon grass on a commercial scale. He also said that under the contract farming, farmers would have a ready market to sell the product. “With the measures already put in place, I hope that the local will grab the opportunity to increase their income and at the same time increase food production for the state,” Masir pointed out

Telebih dulu aku meri Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri ngagai bala-bala ke nyambut pengerami Hari Raya. Nyadi lebuh maia cuti sekulah tu tadi, aku bisi pulai ke menua lalu berandau enggau bala ba menua mega. Bala sida ke tuai-tuai lalu bisi madah ke aku pasal temuai ari menua luar ti bisi datai ngagai menua kitai Semada Belatok aja.

Maia malam ari enam , 26 September 2009 dia Tuai Rumah bisi mai semua begempuru (meeting). Lalu dia Tuai Rumah madah ke pasal temuai ari luar bisi deka datai ngagai menua kitai Semada Belatok. Nyadi batang pejalai sida nya, ianya deka meda menua kitai. Dalam langgur pejalai sidanya engka nya deka begaga ke tempat pelancongan/homestay. Nyadi penyampau sida ia bisi kira-kira 20 iko. Sida dijangka datai maia 30 September 2009 (Rabu).

Berita tu di terima Tuai Rumah ari Biak Sigon. Dia Biak Sigon madah ke sida tu deka di ketuai ulih Kaunselor DSP (rtd) Harrison Lunsa (Lading). Dipelaba ke sida tu ianya bala pelabur ti deka ngaga endor alai pelancongan ba menua kitai. Berita tu manah amai ba aku, laban utai ti baka tu ngarap ke bisi meri pengintung mega ngagai penduduk semada empu. Ngarap ke meh. Dalam masa nya mega kitai anang enda bejimat-jimat ba senentang hal tu, laban nangi ke utai ti enda manah baka utai ti deka nipu/ngelakar kitai kelebih agi ngagai bala ti di menua. Tapi enti utai tu mujur ngarap ke kitai semua bisi bulih pengutung mega ari utai ti bakatu.

Berita tu bedau nyengenda agi sampai ke sida nya ila amai-amai datai leboh 30 September 2009 tu ila. Enti kitai ke bukai ti diau ba negeri tu bisi bala ba menua Semada din, tau-tau meh betanya ngagai sida ia ba pekara tu.

Sekali agi aku madah “Sama-sama meh kitai ngemaju ke Menua kitai Semada Belatok”.

Moderator
Watt Michael

Taken from: The Borneo Post
Friday, September 18, 2009

SERIAN: Several mini-hidro dams will be built in Balai Ringin to provide electricity to far-flung villages in the state constituency. Balai Ringin assemblyman Snowdan Lawan said 40 per cent of villages in his constituency have yet to enjoy electricity because many of the settlements are located far away from the Serian-Sri Aman road.

As such, Snowdan said he has proposed to the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development, through funds from the federal government, build mini-hidro dams at selected locations. He said a pioneer micro-hydro dam project is now being built at Keranggas, located three hours away from the main road.

Currently almost 80 per cent completed, the RM300,000 micro-hyro dam project will have a maximum power output of 50MW to supply electricity to three villages, with a school and population of over 300, said Snowdan. He added the project is also modelled after the community-based mini hydro dam in Kampung Abok Mawang, which was built two years ago with the assistance of University Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas).

He was confident that if the current project succeds, more mini-hydro dams would be approved for construction in his constituency. ” I gave the proposal to Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal when he came to Sarawak recently. Based on the proposal, the cost of building mini-hydro dams in selected locations will be RM10 million.

“If the dam in Keranggas succeds in reaching it objectives, then hopefully this will lead to more micro-hydro dams being built not only in my constituency but other areas as well,” he told reporter after officiating at a breaking of the fast gathering at Kampung Melayu Balai Ringin on Wednesday evening.

Snowdan, who is also Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) vice-president, said he would request for more funds to implement the rural electrification scheme (RES) in his constituency under the upcoming 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP). Stressing that the focus of the RES would be to extend electricity to settlements near the main road ( Serian-Sri Aman road), he said his constituency needed a total allocation of RM55 million for the RES.

” The government has allocated RM15 million for first phase of RES here. Hopefully, we can get more funds for the second phase soon,” he said.