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Keeping Adan rice tradition alive - Borneo Post Online
2025-04-20 08:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
By Chang Yi onApril 13, 2025, Sunday at 6:01 AMFeaturesJennette fill up the just-harvested Adan rice grains into gunny sacks.NESTLED in the breathtaking Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Gerawat Nulun and his wife, Jennette, are among the last of their generation still dedicated to cultivating their ancestral land.Their mission? To preserve and sustain the heritage of Adan rice the grain that has nourished the Kelabit people for centuries.Gerawats journey has taken him across the world from the misty valleys of Bario to the bustling city of Miri, then to the prestigious institutions of Hawaii and Harvard before finally returning home in 2001 to fulfil his lifelong dream of farming Adan rice in the way of his ancestors.Now at age 79, he shares with the writer his lifes journey with his wife in the last 52 years.Scholarship to HawaiiIn 1968, Gerawat became the first Kelabit student to receive a scholarship to study at the East-West Center in Hawaii, an institution established by then...
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