Old Tobacca Factory
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...
