Mulberry Tea

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Kg. Tudan is located inside the buffer zone of the Crocker Range Park, in Upper ...

Kg. Tudan is located inside the buffer zone of the Crocker Range Park, in Upper Tuaran making it as one of the 400 villages that forms the Crocker Range Biosphere Reserve (CRBR), thus restricting them from performing any industrial activity other than agriculture. Most of them grow vegetables or fruit trees to supplement their income. For short-term crops, they grow cabbages, leafy greens and bananas as well as plant hill paddies just for their household consumption. In terms of income level, their income ranged from RM 200 to RM 500 per month and it is variable depending on the crop season. Although agriculture is the main source of livelihood for the local community in Tudan, it does not offer a stable source of income. Apart from that, the current political issues and the introduction of 6% GST in 2015 have serious implications on Malaysia’s economic climate especially in Sabah. Mulberry planting was introduced to the villagers as an alternative to enhance their economic activities and to improve their livelihood. As an introduction, the making of organic mulberry tea leaves was introduced. Organic mulberry tea leaves is an innovative product that transformed the underutilized portion of mulberry leaves into tea product. Made locally in Tudan, Sabah it maximized the potential of the mulberry plant as a whole rather than by focusing only on the fruits. The leaves are hand plucked and dried using green energy via a community solar powered dryer. After the successful of Tudan’s organic mulberry tea leaves, the community now focusing on diversifying its mulberry fruit base products to the production of mulberry sparkling water, mulberry breakfast bar, mulberry leaves extract soap and lotion which have better and demanding market value.

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Dr. Fiffy Hanisdah Saikim, Senior Lecturer at Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia ...

Dr. Fiffy Hanisdah Saikim, Senior Lecturer at Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Her research interest covering human-wildlife conflicts, environmental education, nature interpretation, nature-based tourism products development, Satoyama landscape, community-based conservation and tourism, entomological ecotourism (entotourism) and community empowerment. She believes that integrating approaches will leads to successful and more effective conservation of biodiversity.   

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