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History
The word Yishun is a pinyinised version of the word "Nee Soon". Lim Nee Soon (b. 12 November, 1879 Singapore - d. 20 March 1936, Shanghai, China) was a prominent industrialist, making his fortune from rubber and pineapples. He was also known as a caring landlord, providing much for the villagers who worked under him. The growth of the estates under his ownership started when as a young man of 24, Nee Soon bought land from the government around the Seletar River for cultivation. Before the arrival of rubber, in the middle of the 19th century, the area around the Seletar River was a flourishing gambier and pepper stronghold. These crops declined at the end of the 19th century, to be replaced by rubber. At the peak of Nee Soon's career, his rubber estates covered areas like Jurong, Choa Chu Kang, Mandai, Thomson and Johor. Nee Soon district developed into an extended settlement as Chinese immigrants were hired to become labourers in the rubber plantations. They then settled down forming villages, paying a token amount for the land they rented from Nee Soon. The villages include Mandai Tekong Village, Nee Soon Village, Hainan Village, Hup Choon Kek Village, Phua Village a.k.a. Heng Leh Pah Village, Kum Mang Hng Village, Kampong Telok Soo and Chye Kay Village.
To supplement their livelihood, the villagers took vegetables and fruit, and pig and poultry farming. From the 1960s onwards, they extended their farming activities to include tropical fish and orchid. This along with improved farming techniques contributed to the rise in prosperity of the population of Nee Soon district. In 1979, pig farming was stopped following the government's directive to restrict pig farms to Ponggol and Lim Chu Kang.
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