. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. Agricultural Settlement Schemes particularly education, has been an important factor in attracting and retaining settlers. The new migrants have a relatively high standard of living and are able to purchase a large range of consumer goods, but there are problems looming as few of their children are prepared to work m the plantations and it seems almost impossible for new job opportunities to be created within a rural environment. As in Indo- nesia, new plantations and crops suffer from the wildlife (pigs, deer and elephants) w
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. Agricultural Settlement Schemes particularly education, has been an important factor in attracting and retaining settlers. The new migrants have a relatively high standard of living and are able to purchase a large range of consumer goods, but there are problems looming as few of their children are prepared to work m the plantations and it seems almost impossible for new job opportunities to be created within a rural environment. As in Indo- nesia, new plantations and crops suffer from the wildlife (pigs, deer and elephants) which they have displaced or next to which they have been established. FELDA, however, has been at the forefront of developing effective solar-powered electrical and other defences against elephants. The 6000 sq. km of forested land lost to FELDA schemes is high, yet it represents only 20 per cent of the total land area of Peninsular Malaysia that is under oil palm and rubber, an area which has risen from 20,110 sq. km in 1970 to 23,000 sq. km in 1975, 26,039 sq. km in 1980, 29,628 sq. km in 1985, and over 31,000 sq. km expected by 1990. The FELDA developments must also be seen against national aspirations as detailed in development plans. Thus in the Fourth Malaysia Plan (1981-5) 6075 sq. km were to be opened for rubber and 8470 sq. km for oil palm - during the same period FELDA was to develop 1500 sq. km. Throughout Malaysia the lowland forest has been largely lost and has given way to lucrative plantations of industrial crops, but the problem of landless people below the poverty level still exists. Few alternative opportunities exist to the traditional occupations of fish- ing, growing rice and farming coconuts. Sahabal Project, Dent Peninsula, Sabah About ten years ago FELDA was invited by the Sabah State Government to implement large-scale land development schemes in its eastern regions around Tawau and Lahad Datu. The largest, and one of the more recent schemes, is located
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