Sime Darby – Developing Sustainable Futures Sime Darby Berhad is a major Malaysia-based multinational conglomerate involved in 5 core sectors which are plantations, property, industrial, motors and energy & utilities. Sime Darby is listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.Sime Darby looks at positive investments by engaging with communities where the Group has direct impact and where stakeholders may have an influence on operations. Sime Darby was established by European businessmen
COST OF LAND SUBSIDENCE FOR LAND USERS Land subsidence in case study areas caused numerous direct and indirect damages that led to several costs (see Figure 5). According to the figure, in total, almost half of the land users suffer from the land subsidence both on the damage of the house and the flooding. Other costs of the land subsidence are the indirect cost on lowering of the groundwater and the health problem. Both in urban coastal and rural peatland, the damage to the house as well as flooding
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of study Since the beginning of agriculture humans have had to endure major crop losses because of disease. Even today, when crop health is under careful scrutiny, disease may suddenly strike and ruin an entire season's growth. Fungal plant pathogens play an important role in all our lives as they threaten food security, economic prosperity and natural environments. Many fungi produce biologically activecompounds, several of which are toxicto animals or plants
preliminary remote sensing study in 2004, significant geological features resembling the meteorite impact crater ring was mapped via aerial photograph (Nawawi et al., 2004). The impacted area cannot be seen with naked eyes as it was covered with forest, vegetation and plantation. By using geophysical methods, which are non-destructive and time effective, researchers are able to map the meteorite impact crater in the area that was covered by forest, vegetation and plantation. The study involves two stages