Sabah aims to win big as world's first green palm oil state

SANDAKAN (Thomson Reuters Foundation): For Ettol Kumpilon, the switch from growing rice to oil palm on his small family farm in Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah has enabled him to renovate his home, send his eldest child to school and build up a healthy pot of savings.

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