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The People of Mount Kinabalu
The flanks of Kinabalu
are inhibited by the local Kadazandusun
people, hill farmers who practice shifting cultivation. Traditional
crops such as hill rice, tapioca and sweet potatoes are still
grown
extensively, but in the 50's the introduction of temperate vegetable
farming was started and changed the way of life for many. By 1958 the
government approved list of vegetables included cabbages, carrots,
french beans, celery, capsicums and tomatoes. Today, roses
and chrysanthemums and other cut flowers are also grown.
Hill farming is
still practiced, the main crops now being rice and pineapples - the
roadside stalls at the small town of Kundasang,
six kilometers (ten miles) beyond Kinabalu Park HQ
are daily loaded down with local produce. The Kinabalu Park
and the tourist industry are also major employers, and the sale of
handicrafts and souvenirs has also become a popular source of income
for local people.
Many of the plants within and around the edges of
the Kinabalu Park
are still used by the Kadazandusun
for medicine, food, fuel, construction and handicrafts. In 1992 the Kinabalu Ethnobotanical
Project
was started by the Kinabalu Park staff. The purpose of this was to
collate information on the plants
used by the Kadazandusun
people. By 1998, when the project was wound down, more than 9,000
specimens had been collected. The results show that traditional
medicine is still the main recourse for many people who fall sick, with
31% of the plants recorded being used this way.
Kundasang vegetable stalls. They also have roses (bottom right).
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