Yesterday I was given the opportunity to deliver a short presentation to Ketua Pengarah Kementerian Kemajuan Luar Bandar and Wilayah at Putra Jaya, Wilayah Persekutuan.
The presentation touched on matters pertaining to using idle lands for swiftlet farming. The Kementerian have a huge land banks and most are not properly used to generate income for the Rakyat.
This special talk was organised by a group of us who have the Kementerian at Heart.
What the group did was to promote the idea of pushing the swiftlet farming activities as a way to remove poverty.
The presentation touched on matters pertaining to using idle lands for swiftlet farming. The Kementerian have a huge land banks and most are not properly used to generate income for the Rakyat.
This special talk was organised by a group of us who have the Kementerian at Heart.
What the group did was to promote the idea of pushing the swiftlet farming activities as a way to remove poverty.
The idea proposed was to either use a unitised program, single farm house or an eco park arrangments.
The cheapest is the unitised program where each participant pay about RM 5,000 and earn a steadily increase income for 63 years.
The second is to form a coop where a farm costing around 149K will be owned by those who participate.
The most exciting is to develop the identified land into an Ecopark. The land owner will take his portion of the BH built and the rest will be put on sale to those who wanted to own BH in the vicinity of a Town.
Both the upstream and downstream activities were also discussed.
The idea is to push the building of BHs on those idle lands (subject to successful bird call tests) into swiftlet farming and at the same time get those poverty line people involve in certain activities to generate income.
According to the Kementerian, those who earn an income lower then 445 a month are classified and the core poor. These are normally fishermen and farmers.
We hope that with activities in swiftlet farming, there is a good chance that their involvements might pull those poor guys to be millionaires.
I am sure the ideas proposed will be of great help to the country.
Both the upstream and downstream activities were also discussed.
The idea is to push the building of BHs on those idle lands (subject to successful bird call tests) into swiftlet farming and at the same time get those poverty line people involve in certain activities to generate income.
According to the Kementerian, those who earn an income lower then 445 a month are classified and the core poor. These are normally fishermen and farmers.
We hope that with activities in swiftlet farming, there is a good chance that their involvements might pull those poor guys to be millionaires.
I am sure the ideas proposed will be of great help to the country.
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