KUCHING, Nov 28 2025: Meluan state legislative member (SLM) Rolland Duat has suggested that the sitting period of State Legislative Assembly be extended to 14 days from the present eight days.
Rolland Duat: There are many more proposals that I would like to mention and comments that I would like to make in the house.
He said the extension will allow a longer period of time for SLMs to debate.
“It will also allow for more oral questions to be answered on rural areas such as Meluan, there are many issues that we would like to raise in addition to inserting proposals and policy comments,” he said during the debate on the 2026 State Budget at the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (SLA).
He said there are many more proposals that he would like to mention and comments that he would like to make in the house.
“However, I must comply with the time constraints that have been set,” Duat said.
He also requested that a special programme be established, namely the supply of quality oil palm seeds to smallholders, especially in Meluan.
He said this will at least reduce the cost burden for replanting or grafting smallholders, noting that oil palm has been proven to be able to provide good returns to smallholders.
“I also want to see Meluan developed as Sarawak Food's Valley,” he said, adding that in every session of SLA, he had consistently requested that a Collection Processing and Packaging Centre (CPPC), Agropark, Precision Farming Park be built for Meluan.
He said he does not want to see Meluan be left out of the important plans of the ministry of food industries, commodities and regional development in the agricultural sector.
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