He said that natives are the bigger land owners in the State, but they are the group who are lagging behind other races.

He said commercialised land development using modern agricultural technology will increase the produces per hectare much much more than the present manpower method of farming.

"This will benefit the people in long term as their farms are able to generate bigger incomes to uplift their living standard", Tiong spoke to reporters after visiting to several longhouses at Kuala Suai in his constituency recently.

He pointed out that land owners should not necessary go all out for oil palm planting as diversifying their crops could be an advantage to them in term of marketing strategy.

He said they can considered breeding animals, fish and planting fruit trees.

Tiong strongly support the Chief Minister land develoment policy as many NCR land in the State has been left idle for a long time.

He said only through commercialised these big piece of land will bring the people to a better living standard.

He said that land issue is not really a sensitive issue to touch on if the natives involved have a full understand of the land development concept.

For that, Tiong has urged all developers to sincerely brief the land owners before the actual works on the land.

This was the second round Dato' Seri Tiong King Sing visiting to all the longhouses and kampungs in his constituency. From early this year, he has visited about 200 longhouses out of the 630 in the P.190 constituency.

During the visit Tiong also collected informations, requests and complaints from the people.

For some of the complaints aganist a small group of government  officers on their unfriendly approaches in carrying out their duties, Tiong said if this is the case, the officers concerned should changed their attitude so not to hinder the development efforts of the government.

On the security and safety of the longhouses, he urged the residents not to put on extensive wiring as this will posed a great fire hazard to their houses.

He also handed over a poriton of the government allocations to the longhouses