When Merlin Varghese’s great-grandfather, Moothedan Varghese, went to Malaysia for higher education ... have relied on cash crops such as coconut, nutmeg, rubber, tea and coffee. When Varghese planted ...

Coconut is supposed to have originated somewhere in the Indo-Malayan region and it is first used by the Austronesian peoples sometime between 3000 to 1500 BCE. The coconut palm tree has only one ...

Malaysian Society of Arborist (PArM) vice president Puteri Noorlela Bahrun highlighted that many Malaysians have little ...