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The oil palm industry in Malaysia used to hire thousands of female workers to just manually gather pollen grains from male flowers of oil palms to pollinate female flowers. On average, a group of three workers are required for a every hectare of oil palm plantation. Teams of workers patrolled the oil palm estate daily, […]
The motor industry in Europe and the US in the early 1900s led to the mad rush for plantation rubber in British Malaya (Malaysia now). There was not enough supply of rubber gathered from the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. A large part of British Malaya was cleared of its forests and planted with rubber trees. […]
Introduction Coconut leaf mid-rib or spine has been used extensively as brooms. However, these brooms have been replaced by plastic brooms, which are cheaper. However, these plastic brooms contribute to the problem of plastic wastes. Coconut leaf mid-rib brooms are slightly more expensive as they need to be manually separated from the coconut leaves by […]
Introduction We are a keen follower of the host of The Bizarre Food, Mr. Andrew Zimmern. He eats all kinds of bizarre food. In the many episodes, we had not watched him eat a most bizarre food, namely porcupine bezoar. Porcupine bezoar is a very expensive herbal food in traditional Chinese medicine. The Chinese believe […]
Introduction There are more than twenty four species of swift distributed around the world, but only a few species that produce nests that are deemed edible. The majority of edible bird’s nests consumed worldwide come from two species, namely Aerodramus fuciphogus and Aerodramus maximus . They can be found in areas covering Nicobar Islands, Thailand, […]
Background In the early phase of the rubber industry in early 1900s, investors and speculators floated companies, which owned rubber estates or rubber lands in Malaya, on the London Stock Exchange. Their estates in major states like Selangor and Negri Sembilan had English-sounding names. Some of the English-sounding names included: Aranlife Balgownie Beaumont Blackwater Braemer […]
Introduction Legend had it that four seed s of African Elaeis guineensis brought over by the Dutch into Indonesia in 1848 and planted in Bogor, Indonesia, laid the foundation for the palm industry in Malaysia and Indonesia. The two countries now produce more than eighty per cent of palm oil in the world. The earliest […]
Background Today, not many people would know H. N. Ridley. As a Malaysian business and innovation historian, I had studied the development of Malaysian major industries. I noted, in each industry, there was a notable industry champion. Of all the Malaysian industries, plantation rubber had the most economic impact on British Malaya (Malaysia before independence […]