Towards the end  of the 19th  Century  settled  in  the  New  Darvel  Bay  Tobacco Company  in  Lahad  Datu . The Licensed  by the  North  Borneo  Chartered Company  began  business  in  a big way  with tobacco  farming.      HISTORY   Von Donop's primary task was to introduce the right type of crops for  Sabah. He decided to experiment with tobacco. Sanders, a tobacco  planter from         Deli in Sumatra, was enlisted to explore the area  south of the Marudu Bay at Bandau, Bongon and Bengkoka River in order to  determine their suitability         for the planting of tobacco.   The first experiment was carried out by Sanders in 1883 at the  Suanlamba River near Sandakan as a project of the China Sabah Land  Farming Company, a         Chinese-European joint venture company that  was floated in Shanghai.   The company had acquired a land concession of 40,000 acres (16,000ha)  in 1882 to plant sugar cane, but decided to shift to tobacco after  sugar prices         experienced a shar...
 
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