Ampang Pomelo Farmers
AMPANG POMELO FARMERS On the 27 th February 2017, we visited a pomelo farm in Ampang, Ipoh. This site has been harvested for pomelo primarily together with durians and fish farming since the 1940’s. The plight of the farmers came to our attention via Y.B Chee Kin, the assemblyman for Bercham. The current farmers and their forefathers and siblings have been harvesting the land for more than 70 years. Since the 1940’s, there has been no problems of them occupying the land from the government. Since the 1980’s they actually were encouraged to apply for alienation of the said land from the state government. The farmers were given Temporary Occupational Licenses (TOL) to harvest the land. Subsequently, they followed all procedures by the state government to alienate the land to their names until 2015. Suddenly, they received a letter from the Land Office that their applications have been rejected because the said land has been alienated to an earl