SEREMBAN, July 10 (Bernama) — A total of 3,532 smallholders in Negeri Sembilan today received RM10.25 million in dividends from the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (RISDA).
State Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Committee chairman Datuk Hasim Rusdi said the dividend payout for the year 2014 was given to 1,959 smallholders under RISDA’s Cluster New Planting Scheme (RTBB) and 1,573 smallholders under the Commercial Replanting Scheme (TSK).
“The minimum dividend to be paid to the RTBB’s participants is RM800 per hectare and the maximum of RM9,000 for 2.83 hectare,” he told reporters after the presentation of RISDA dividend to Negeri Sembilan smallholders here today.
Also present was Negeri Sembilan RISDA director Mohammad Zakaria Alang Zahari.
At the event, Hasim also presented Raya goodies to 20 selected orphans among the children of RISDA smallholders and four disabled persons.
— BERNAMA
