I do not want to be labeled as a person who is against the Ruling Party or being influenced by the Opposition Parties. Frankly I want to stay neutral and my scope of interest is to promote the Edible Bird Nest Industries in Malaysia.
There are so many things that are lacking to make the industry a major income earner for the country and everyday we will only receive complains and issues that are prohibitive in nature.
Like I said before many Malaysian Investors in the Swiftlet Industries are running to the neighboring countries to invest and here we are still do not have any guidelines to follow.
Those guidelines was said to be readied and to be tabled to the Cabinets early this year however nothing happened. It went dead or the person in charged must have been removed.
Recently another issue was raised in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
What we need are Politicians, like Datuk Louis Rampas, that support the Industries and help the Swiftlet Community to increase the benefits for the state.
Perhaps we should organise big forum or seminars to promote the industry to the local, foreign and the world.
Perhaps we should organise big forum or seminars to promote the industry to the local, foreign and the world.
We need the top brass in each state to help in guiding the industries to a proper direction.
We need a proper guidelines, beneficial to the industries, to be issued and allow investors to follow.
We need the state to look or adopt the industry similar to other industries like Palm Oil Industries, Fishing Industries, Tourism Industries, Padi Planting Industries, Mushroom Industries, Rubber Industries and so forth. We can call it as Swiftlet Farming Industries.
It encompassed all activities that starts from the allocation of land to develop the precious industries to the export of every product that are associated with bird nests. Good example manufacturing of collegent for beautiful skin, birdnest creams for your body, capsules to cure cancer, mineral water laced with birdnest, Non Alcoholic beverages laced with birdnests, biscuit with birdnest, Gingseng with birdnest and many more.
Allocate say RM100 million as a start. Slowly increase it to maybe 500 million when there are good income coming into the state.
Also possible is to provide research grants. Get those local universities in the state to conduct research into turning the industries into greater height. To individuals who wanted to conduct specialised research ask them to come forward and let them apply those grants with minimum qualifications.
What we need are newer methods to push this specialised industry toward a scientific method of populating those BHs.
It encompassed all activities that starts from the allocation of land to develop the precious industries to the export of every product that are associated with bird nests. Good example manufacturing of collegent for beautiful skin, birdnest creams for your body, capsules to cure cancer, mineral water laced with birdnest, Non Alcoholic beverages laced with birdnests, biscuit with birdnest, Gingseng with birdnest and many more.
Allocate say RM100 million as a start. Slowly increase it to maybe 500 million when there are good income coming into the state.
Also possible is to provide research grants. Get those local universities in the state to conduct research into turning the industries into greater height. To individuals who wanted to conduct specialised research ask them to come forward and let them apply those grants with minimum qualifications.
What we need are newer methods to push this specialised industry toward a scientific method of populating those BHs.
This special industry have so many benefits if the state can come out with a master plan in encouraging more investors to come with their money into the state.
Look at the Industry now which is without proper master plan?
Millions of Ringgit, both from local and foreign countries, are being poured into it. Just imagine if there is a proper master plan?
Look at the Industry now which is without proper master plan?
Millions of Ringgit, both from local and foreign countries, are being poured into it. Just imagine if there is a proper master plan?
Why don't the Sabah Agricultural Ministry or State Development Board look into a proper Master Plan? Something long terms that will propel the State as the Major Swiftlet Farming Destination.
I am more then 100% sure that the state can lure those investors from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, Japan, Korea and the Middle East to flock into the state to own a BH.
With Air Asia using KK as one of their flight center linking mainlan China, Hongkong and Manila I am sure it will be very easy to promote the industry in a large scale.
With Air Asia using KK as one of their flight center linking mainlan China, Hongkong and Manila I am sure it will be very easy to promote the industry in a large scale.
There is no use of coming out with makeshift statements, mostly negatives,to kill the industry. What we need are some commitment to help the industry.
We do not need negative dosages of comments that the industry will bring in diseases, foul smell, shits everywhere and so forth. This matter have been mentioned so many many times at many seminars and meeting with the Ministries.
Treat us with respect and we can be a big force to help the country to bring wealth into the country
Try to look at this industry as a positive force and find ways to maximize from it.
I came to know from someone yesterday, the number of swiftlet farming BH in Malaysia now have surpassed 120,000 units. If each unit is, on the average, cost RM 200,000 we have so far dump in 120,000 units X RM200,000 = 24,000,000,000. Please count those zerooooooooos. Yes we are looking at 24 billion ringgit and rising every day.
Is 24 billion ringgit still not strong enought to call for some serious attention?
Nearly 70% of these BHs are not doing well. Not doing well means sick and not producing enough income to pay their monthly bills.
Where do you think these owners can get some helps from? Sometime it is much better to have those goats or plant some tomatos. You do have a place to ask for assistance or fertilizers, insecticides or supply of goats from the vetinery Department. Swiftlet farmers are not welcome and there is no appropriate helps to be given.
Something is not right and we need to push the relevant Ministries to get more or their staff into this territory to helps these poor investors.
Do you know that it is not easy to get loan from those banks to built BHs?
Those so called banks will push you to the ceiling when you ask for financial assistance. They are not willing to take any risks or there are no allocation or the amount allocated "bow liow" or all taken.
Even if they happened to allocate their is a 100% colletral is required.
We should be more well looked after as compare to being treated like illegal immigrants or criminals.
More often then not the money dumped into these 70% failed BH comes from those Swiftlet Farmer's savings.
I urged all parties, be it political or NGO or individual, that are associated with this specialized business to be fair to the industry and try to minimize any friction between the BH investors and the local authorities.
It will only do harm to the beautiful God Gift Industry.
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