Merotai Besar

SELAMAT DATANG
KAMPUNG MEROTAI BESAR
TAWAU, SABAH
KHIDMAT SISWA (K-SISWA) 2005
UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH

SELAMAT DATANG KE GDW

BANGSA BERDAYA NEGARA JAYA
Gerakan Daya Wawasan
KG. MEROTAI BESAR

Kg. Merotai Besar Village Library
PD Kg. Merotai Besar, Tawau

Address :

PD Kg. Merotai Besar,
D/A Tawau Regional Library,
P. O. Box 775
91008 TAWAU

Kg. Merotai Besar Village Library is located about 30km from Tawau town. It was officiated in 28 July 2005 by YB Datuk Yahya Hussin, Deputy Chief Minister cum Minister of Community Development & Consumer Affairs. Apart from books and magazines, ICT facilities like computer, printer, scanner and internet are also available in this village library.

Merotai wildlife centre Tawau:

June 2008 : Merotai Assemblyman Pang Yuk Ming disclosed plans to set up the Merotai Wildlife Centre, in the Kalabakan parliamentary constituency, to house Borneo pygmy elephants, reputed to the world's small elephants, in the near future. Such proposal increase tourist influx, particularly wildlife lovers.

The Merotai Wildlife Centre project would be sited at the Desa Subur area, near the Tawau Hill Park, which has attractive natural surroundings, including a river.

YB Pang Yuk Ming expressed optimism that the proposal would likely to be approved by Sabah Parks, Borneo Conservation Trust and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The project would be successful in a similar fashion as the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary in Sandakan.

The centre would serve as a rehabilitation centre and sanctuary for rescued Borneo pygmy elephants, which had been gaining worldwife attention as their number had dwindled to about 1,000 in Sabah.

a) Encik Mohamad Bin Fakir – Native Chief, Merotai
b) Encik Ariffin Mohd Noor – Vice Native Chief, Merotai
c) Sergeant Major Basir Bin Ahmad – Head of Bombalai Police Station
d) Constable Mohd Aswira – PPK Merotai
e) Haji Saleh Eyam – Village Head, Tanah Merah
f) Encik Mohd Yusof Bin Fakir – Merotai Mini Bus Association Chairman
g) Encik Harris Bin Hamzah – JKKK, Kg Simpang 3
h) Encik Harry Kashuri – JKKK, Pekan Merotai
i) Encik Arsad Bin Mohd – JKKK Chairman, Kg Kijang
j) Encik Kaling Ak Jarau – JKKK, Kg Iban
k) Hj Mahmud Bin Baco – Village Head, Merotai Besar

Sabah has proposed to the Federal Government to set up a National Marine Aquaculture Centre on some 3,000 acres in Merotai, Tawau.

A technical committee was chaired by the Permanent Secretary of Agriculture and Food Industry Ministry working on : Conceptual Paper for NMAC - National Marine Aquaculture Centre with the hope that NMAC would become a reality by 2008.

Agriculture and Food Industry Minister, Datuk Abdul Rahim Ismail, said they received positive signs that the Federal Government is seriously considering setting up NMAC in Sabah.

Marine aquaculture experts and various agencies had identified some components of the proposed centre. These include :

1- NMAC would become a place for producing aquaculture products using up-to-date technology and methods

The special focus of this proposed centre is to assist shoreline fishermen to venture into commercial activity so that they can climb out from the clutches of poverty.

In 2006 there are about 25,000 shoreline fishermen registered in Sabah, with about 10,000-15,000 still in poverty.

National Marine Aquaculture Centre will be able to assist them. The proposed centre is a hub for marketing and exporting aquaculture produce.

Since 2001 the aquaculture sector in Sabah has been showing a rapid growth especially with the involvement of commercial-status companies.

Sabah State's aquaculture sector presently has the capability of producing some 20,000 metric tones per annum and hoped to triple its production by 2010.

THE site for the setting up of the proposed National Marine Aquaculture Centre in Merotai is among more than 30,000 hectares gazette by the State government as Aquaculture Industrial Zone (ZIA).

The rest are in Tambisan (Sandakan), Klias (Beaufort), Menumbok and Pitas, which have already managed to lure some investors to carry out aquaculture activities involving tiger prawns, in-cage fish and seaweed among others.

Sabah is in short supply of fish fries. This has been a major problem as Sabah alone needs about 40 million fish fries today, we only can produce least than 20 million fish fries for the aquaculture sector."

Aquaculture To Spearhead Sabah's Agriculture Development

Some 100,000 jellyfish fry were released into Sungai Merotai Besar in 2005

Aquaculture farming will be intensively developed in efforts to boost Sabah's agriculture sector, said Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Food Industry Datuk Patawari Patawe.

Sabah government was supportive of a joint effort between a local firm and a company from China to aggressively develop the Sabah's aquaculture industry.

An aquaculture joint-venture was established between local firm M-Square Sdn Bhd and China's Dalian Glory Technology Ltd.

Dalian, has 30 years experience in aquaculture ventures, has wide international networking which spans Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Australia and West Asia.

The jellyfish project involved three phases :
1- construction of a hatchery
2- jellyfish breeding
3- construction of a processing mill.

M-Square, in collaboration with the Sabah Agriculture Department, has set up a hatchery in Tuaran near Kota Kinabalu.

The Tuaran jellyfish hatchery, together with the one here, are expected to produce jellyfish fry for export to China, Japan and Korea.

Some 100,000 jellyfish fry were released into Sungai Merotai Besar in 2005

Students and residents in Kampung Merotai Besar can access information from the outside world through the Internet, with the inception of a Rural Info Centre (MID) since 2004. Students could gain additional knowledge to improve their preparations for their PMR, SPM or STMP studies and examinations.

The RM400,000 project under the Federal Ministry of Entrepreneur Development is one of 13 established throughout Malaysia, including another one at Kampung Bayangan, in Keningau.

The facility served as an opportunity for the local residents to learn more about information technology, other than enriching their knowledge on various aspects of development.

The Kampung Merotai Besar Rural Info Centre has 21 units of computer, a printer and a scanner, with direct access to the Internet, apart from playing its role as a reference centre, he added.

The facilities available at the MID building include a prayer room, toilets, a meeting room and an administrative room. In addition, there are several racks of reference books related to computer illiteracy, acquired through the efforts of Universiti Malaya, UPM, UUM and UTM.

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