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“Deep Tropical” GIFT Farming Model

can feed MalaysiaPresentation to Petronas

14 August 2008

22 SLIDES

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The Malaysian Irony

Malaysia has developed the agricultural capacity to produce

60% of the world’s Palm Oil

YetCannot feed its own tiny population

of 27 million !


History of Malaya-MalaysianAnimal Production in Humid Tropics

For 500 years have been using the same agricultural model

European type GrazingFor cattle, cows, sheep, goatsBUT FAILS REPEATEDLY

Industrialised Malaysia Still Imports:-77% Beef 92% Mutton 95% Milk


“Malaysia produces ONLY HALF of its current food consumption

using its own resources”“ In the world economic collapse

Malaysia will face mass starvation far worse than the

Japanese Occupation”March 2002 National Conference

Mohd Peter Davis & Makhdzir Mardan, UPM


Without ImportsMalaysia’s food industries will collapse

CONSUMPTION PRODUCTION 2007 (with NO imports)Beef 5.1kg/person/yr 1.1kg/person/yrMutton 0.7 0.06Pork 5.0 0.2 Chicken 33.2 0.6 ?Eggs 16.0 0.3 ? TOTAL 60.0 kg 2.3 kg (estimate)

TRUE self-sufficiency for Meat & Eggs Less than 4%


1989-1997Universiti Putra Malaysia

Basic ResearchIntensive Sheep

Production


Overcame 4 biological problems of Grazing Animals in

Humid Tropics2. Heat Stress3. High parasite & disease load4. Poor nutrition of native grasses5. Improved pastures get overgrown Feeding PKC under intensive conditions

overcame ALL these problems


Sheep Growth Rates

15th to 20th Century Grazing kampung/plantation 45g/day

1995 UPM’s PKC Feedlot 159g/day

2007 GIFT Farming Model 250g/day


2 month old DORPER LAMBS 18kg eachGIFT Farming System Malaysia

38kg market weight at 4months. Meat value RM522

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Deep Tropical Gift Farming Model

has discovered the secret of economically producing sheep, goats, cattle and milking cows

in the humid tropics

CLIMATE HOUSESBEST BREEDS OF ANIMALS

& GRASS PLANTATIONS


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The GIFT GRASS PLANTATION80 hectares in Muadzam Shah, Pahang

Malaysian climate supports world’s highest rate of Biomass Production

Brachiaria Rozi

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ROZI grass Grows 3-feet in 35 days (1 inch per day) in a Plantation

GRASS CUT AT35 DAYS IS PERFECT FOR FEEDING TO RUMINANTSGrass can be cut ten times per year for three years before ploughing


Malaysia’s Competitive AdvantageWORLD’S HIGHEST RATE BIOMASS PRODUCTION

Oil Palm in HUMID TROPICS produces

8-10 times more oil per hectare compared to Soybean or Rapeseed in

TEMPERATE CLIMATES“Due to high PHOTOSYNTHETIC rates

resulting in ten times higher CO2

absorption and oxygen emission rates than observed with soybean”

Ref: Yusof Basiron, Eur.J.Lipid Sci. Tecnol 109 (2007) 287-295


60 to 70% COSTof animal production

is the feed costMalaysian Grass plantations

take 3 months to establishVast land in Sabah & Sarawak

Sheep in GIFT shelters are easy care animals


3 TIMES CHEAPER FEEDfor sheep, goats, cattle, dairy cows

FEEDLOT COMPARISON Rozi Grass/kg protein

RM1.90 PKC Based pellets /kg protein

RM6.70


Malaysia’s Deep Tropical GIFT Farming Model

WORLD COMPARISONFar Superior to Grazing System

1 hectare of grass plantation can maintain 82 Breeding sheep

and produce 170 lambsCompared to 25 sheep per hectare

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Revenue per HectareLambs versus Palm Oil

1 ha Grass Plantation required to maintain 82 breeding ewes and produce 170 lambs per year

170 LAMBS SOLD (Ram lamb RM350, Ewe lamb RM650)

RM85,000 /ha /yrPALM OIL 21 ton/ha @ RM600/ton

RM12,600 /ha /yr CONCLUSION:

Lambs generate 7 times more Revenue


CONCLUSION

Malaysia’s Deep Tropical GIFT Farming Model

is now being recognised as a

world agricultural breakthroughIt is time for Malaysian Scientists

Government and Industryto enthusiastically support it

Last week Minister of Agriculture briefed


CUT GRASS EVERY

35 DAYS FOR 3 YEARS

Fed to sheep, goats, cattle, milking cows

in cool climate sheds

GREAT increase in

Meat and Milkproduction

World Breakthrough : Malaysian Grass Plantations

DEEP TROPICAL GIFT FARMING MODEL 3 TIMES MORE PRODUCTIVE

Than Best New Zealand Grazing Farms

IN BRIEF


Malaysian Rubber production2008 Estimate 1.19m tonnes from 973,000 hectares

RM4.27/kg (SMR20 price Dec 2008)Therefore present value of Rubber 1.19m tonnes x RM4.27/kg

= RM5.08 billion per year From 973,000 hectares Rubber Income RM5222 per year per hectare plantation (at RM4.27/kg)

GIFT Lamb Production (Potential income selling young Ewe lambs RM650, Ram lambs RM350)

Weaned Lamb Income RM85,000 /yr/hectare grass plantation Conclusion (Dec 2008): GIFT lamb production will be 16 times more profitable

per hectare compared to rubber


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