Report on Industrial Training at Agriculture Research Station (ARS) Tenom

The Agriculture Research Station (ARS) Tenom was established on 1971. This station is one from the four main centre/station in Sabah. Another centre/station is at Agriculture Research Centre Tuaran, Agriculture Research Station Ulu Dusun Sandakan, and Agriculture Research Station Quoin Hill Taw;au. From the beginning, this station was known as Cocoa Research Station due to the research activity was focussed on cocoa only. Since on 1981, the researching activity are developing into many another crops such as fruit trees, coffee, food crops and apiculture researching until the station's name is changed to Agricultur,e Research Station Tenom. The factor that causing the changing of name and developing the activity is when the Cocoa Malaysian Board was established and taking all the cocoa researching activity. Although the cocoa researching activity· is already stopped here, the keeping of cocoa's clones are still actively continued so that they will not extinct from this station.