{"id":2873,"date":"2022-05-21T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2022-05-21T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T10:22:28","slug":"a-wish-for-his-golden-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/a-wish-for-his-golden-years\/","title":{"rendered":"A wish for his golden years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liew Wong does not want to burden his children.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Foong Pek Yee<\/p>\n

foongpekyee@gmail.com<\/p>\n

AT 56, Liew Wong is four years from the official retirement age.<\/div>\n
He is relieved that his two children, in their late 20s, are working and independent.<\/div>\n
Having toiled as a farmer for the last 30 years to raise his family, Liew says his wish from now on is to be able to take care of his wife and himself in their golden years.<\/div>\n
“I do not want to depend on my children for a living,” says Liew as he gobbled up his lunch when met at Kanthan Baru New Village in Chemor, Perak recently.<\/div>\n
His weather beaten face tells the story of a hard life.<\/div>\n
He is the third generation of farmers in his family from the village.<\/div>\n
Farming is a 365 days job from sunrise to sunset, he says.<\/div>\n
As a small scale farmer, you are the boss and you and your family are the workers, says Liew, recalling he started to help his father in the farm when he was 10 years old.<\/div>\n
It is all about working hard to survive day to day.<\/div>\n
Today, his 86-year-old father continues to work in their farm, measuring about two acres where they planted the umbra fruit\u00a0 (sar lei in Cantonese) and oil palm.\"\"<\/div>\n
Make way: The entrance to Liew Wong’s farm. He got a notice to<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u00a0evict the land.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Farming and village life has its upside though.<\/div>\n
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They enjoy a peaceful and simple life in a close knitted community from generation to generation since the 1920s.<\/div>\n
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All is well until 2005 when land issues started to surface.<\/div>\n
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For many farmers, they toil on land without legal documents since their forefathers set foot in Chemor a century ago.<\/div>\n
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Since 17 years ago, development saw some farmers having to surrender their farmland when the area is earmarked for the purpose.<\/div>\n
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Nevermind that Chemor is known for vegetable farming, producing some 60,000 kilogram vegetables daily.<\/div>\n
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According to the farmers, the terrain and soil in Chemor are conducive for many types of vegetables –\u00a0 from spinach, choy sam, brinjals, bitter gourds, chillies to maize.<\/div>\n
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“All along we are willing to pay to the landowners to lease the land, ” says Liew<\/div>\n
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According to him,\u00a0 then Tambun Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah had in 2012\u00a0 helped farmers to resolve the land issues.<\/div>\n
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However Liew says the signing of a\u00a0 deal on land lease for\u00a0 farmers was aborted at the last minute.<\/div>\n
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In December last year, Liew says he is among farmers in Chemor who received eviction notice.<\/div>\n
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“I don’t know where to get a job to survive if I lost my farm.<\/div>\n
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“Even young people find it hard to get jobs these days,”he says.<\/div>\n
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Liew Wong does not want to burden his children. By Foong Pek Yee foongpekyee@gmail.com AT 56, Liew Wong is four years from the official retirement age. He is relieved that his two children, in their late 20s, are working and independent. Having toiled as a farmer for the last 30 years to raise his family, … Continue reading “A wish for his golden years”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[192,195,194,189,198,197,191,196,177],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-chemor","tag-deal","tag-eviction","tag-farmer","tag-financial","tag-golden-years","tag-land","tag-tambun","tag-vegetables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}