Trip to Bornion Timber rubber forest plantation

It was an amazing trip to Bornion Timber (BT) rubber forest plantation at Sook, Keningau, Sabah, last week.

It took about 3-4 hours drive from Kota Kinabalu to the plantation base camp at Sook.

On the way to Sook, I was attracted by the beautiful natural scenery of Crocker Range. However, once I reached BT base camp, I was amazed by the BT's forest management plans for an area of 109,000 ha, which is bigger than the size of Singapore!

sustainable forest management

one of the compartments is ready for rubber trees planting

one the nursery bases

a new life begins (after 2 weeks)

During the trip, I was exposed to the rubber plantation plans (about 30,000 ha.), planting techniques, forest reservation, the hard works, the challenges, the co-operation with China counterparts, and the visions of the project.

Definitely, this will become a super great project in the next 5 years.