| Agro-Food
Based Division
LIVESTOCK
The
companies involved in the Livestock activities are:
ROSEWOOD
STATION PTY LTD
This
SEDC-owned, Australian-registered company owns a 280,000 ha cattle
breeding station in Northern Territory, Australia with 27,000 heads of
cattle; and a 14,711 ha cattle fattening station at Strathmere-Beardie
Aggregation, St. George, Queensland, Australia.
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Rosewood Cattle Breeding
Station, Northern Territory, Australia
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Strathmere and Beardie
Aggregation, St. George, Queensland, Australia
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PURCHASE
OF NEW FARM IN AUSTRALIA
Rosewood
Station Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of SEDC Sarawak has
purchased a new cattle farm in Australia with the details as follows:
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Name of
Farm
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Strathmere and Beardie
Aggregation
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Size of
Farm
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: 14,711
hectares
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Location
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: St.
George, Queensland,
Australia
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Date of
Purchase
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September 2007
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Purpose
of Farm
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To Complement the operation of Rosewood Station, a cattle farm owned by
Rosewood Station Pty Ltd in Northen Territory Australia.
Strathmere
and Beardie Aggregation will be an ideal place for cattle fattening
from Rosewood Station and cattle from other farms. The new farms's
carrying capacity is 5000 heads.
Besides
cattle fattening,
the farm can also produce crops such as wheat and sorghum.
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PPES
TERNAK SDN BHD
This company owns a 600-hectare cattle farm at Sungai Karabungan near
Miri. The principal activities are:
(i) Breeding
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Brahman
breed cattle purchased from SEDC-owned Rosewood Station, Australia, are
reared on the farm.
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Cerrus
timorensis russa are bred for sale as live animals or as
venison.
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Goats
are reared and sold live for Aqiqah and Qurban and/or as goat meat for
the local market.
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(ii)
Feedlotting (Fattening)
The feeder cattle from Rosewood Station, Australia, and calves of the
Karabungan farm are fattened in the feedlot, before being sold in the
local market.
(iii)
Abattoir Services
The Kuching Abattoir Complex provides services for
the slaughtering of cattle, camel and small ruminants (goat, sheep &
deer). It is the only ruminant abattoir in the State with halal
certification.
Cattle in feedlot
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(iv)
Cattle Fattening Scheme
The cattle fattening scheme is jointly
undertaken
by the State Development Office (SDO) & SEDC with funding by
the Ministry of Rural & Regional Development. This activity is
in line with the Government's objective to eradicate poverty for the
rural community.
PPES
Ternak Sdn. Bhd. supplies cattle to the rural community and undertakes
marketing on buy-back basis. Technical input is provided by the
Veterinary Division of the Department of Agriculture.The participants
also act as agents for PPES Ternak Sdn. Bhd. in the sale of live cattle
in their own locality.
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(v) Cattle Integration Project
The
Cattle Integration project is jointly undertaken by Department
of Agriculture (DOA) and SEDC through its subsidiary, PPES Ternak Sdn
Bhd with funding from the State Government.
The
breeder cattle will be supplied to oil palm plantations by DOA under
the Pawah Scheme. Under this scheme, the participating
plantations will pay back / return to DOA the same number of
animals aged 8 months and above within 5 years
The
objectives of the project are:-
- To
support the Government objective towards increasing livestock in the
country.
- To maximise output from land
use.
- To benefit oil palm plantations where weeds
are biologically controlled and cost of weedicide reduced.
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