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Malaysia's Sime Darby marks land for rice plantation

Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:37pm EDT

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby (SIME.KL), the world's largest listed palm oil planter, has identified 7,000 hectares of land to be used for planting rice, its chairman Musa Hitam said on Monday.

(Reporting by Soo Ai Peng)



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