KUALA LUMPUR: NPC Resources Bhd has aborted a plan to sell about 4,600 hectares of oil palm plantations in Sabah to IOI Corp Bhd.

       "The company is unable to accept the indicated revised purchase price for the proposed transactions and is withdrawing the offer to sell the properties and the Koperasi land, and as such would discontinue further negotiations on the terms of the Proposed Transactions," NPC said in a filing today.

       NPC, on July 5 said it has received a RM281mil non-binding offer from IOI Corp to acquire the company's oil palm estates in Labuk, Sugut, Kinabatangan and Beluran districts in Sabah.