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Originally Posted by Black Page
Anybody can explain me why the choice of fresh fruit in Batam is so poor compared to Malaysia? Yes, Malaysia and Thailand are the farms of South East Asia, but why Batam cannot have fresh fruit?.
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Batam is an industralised island city and has one of the busiest port. It has limited land for plantation and agriculture farming as it is only twice the size of singapore.
Therefore most of the fruits are imported either from java or sumatra and therefore it is not as fresh as when it was harvested.
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Originally Posted by Black Page
I see fresh rambutan almost every time I go to KL, right season or not, but in Batam it seems always off season. Not to say about jambu air. Most of the times, at the market in Jodoh jambu air are old and damaged, when I see them.
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Most of the rambutans in the world are produced in Peninsular Malaysia and West Java and also Thailand.
Because these areas has vast amount of land for cultivation and the warm tropical climate are favourable to the growth of rambutan.
