Farm to produce ‘green’ energy with cow dung

KENINGAU: The owner of a cattle farm here plans to produce electricity with biogas from cow dung. Yap Yun Fook said: “Besides producing milk, I am also planning to process the cow dung to produce biogas that can be used to generate electricity for my farm,” he told reporters during a working visit by Rural Development Minister Datuk Ewon Ebin at Kg Ansip and Bininin, near here.

In line with his zero waste objective, he turns all the animal waste into fertiliser.
Yap, who also owns an oil palm estate and a durian orchard, said his cattle farm started small in 1982 with only 50 cows as a start-up assistance from the government but now it has more than 4,000 cows.

Meanwhile, Ewon said the farm was one of several he was visiting to hear from the owners how they achieved success in the agriculture sector.Also present during the visit were political secretaries John Chin and Japirin Sahadi, communication secretary Japari Yadam and Ewon’s wife Datin Danna Ontol.

Exporting Beef To Indonesia

Sarawak is planning to export beef to Indonesia. The Indonesian inspection team had just completed the auditing to one of the processing plan.

Farm to produce ‘green’ energy with cow dung

KENINGAU: The owner of a cattle farm here plans to produce electricity with biogas from cow dung. Yap Yun Fook said: “Besides producing milk, I am also planning to process the cow dung to produce biogas that can be used to generate electricity for my farm,” he told reporters during a working visit by Rural Development Minister Datuk Ewon Ebin at Kg Ansip and Bininin, near here.

In line with his zero waste objective, he turns all the animal waste into fertiliser.
Yap, who also owns an oil palm estate and a durian orchard, said his cattle farm started small in 1982 with only 50 cows as a start-up assistance from the government but now it has more than 4,000 cows.

Meanwhile, Ewon said the farm was one of several he was visiting to hear from the owners how they achieved success in the agriculture sector. Also present during the visit were political secretaries John Chin and Japirin Sahadi, communication secretary Japari Yadam and Ewon’s wife Datin Danna Ontol.

Cattle Integration With Oil Palm

The best way to rear cattle in Sarawak is through integaration with Oil Palm. If you have 400 ha, you can put 100 heads. We need to utilize electric fencing to confine the cattle say about 10 ha per day.

Cattle Farming In Malaysia

Lagoon for waste treatment and was monitored regularly by Department of Environment

A small scale abattoir that implement Good Veterinary Hygence Practices (GVHP)

Brahman breed was imported from Australia ( Good and reliable source)

This is one of the successful cattle farmer in Malaysia. He rear about 250 cattle for using fedlot system and also an abattoir registered with Department of Veterinary Services. I have audited this premises twice.

A fully integrated enteprise from farm to table. The owner also operate a restaurant to promote their recipe Sup Tulang and Sup Ekor (tail soup).