Cattle Fidlot For Poverty Eradication Programme

Malaysia’s aim to eradicate hard-core poverty this year has been achieved.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the latest report submitted at a Government Transformation Programme meeting recently showed that the zero hard-core poor programme had succeeded.

Muhyiddin, who is also Pagoh MP, said things could change in instances when a man falls ill, dies or loses his job, causing the family to become poor, but the Govern­ment would continue to provide the necessary assistance.

He said Malaysia was the only country which knew how many poor people it had and who they were as the Government had lists of them in all the states.

He said when the country gained its independence in 1957, more than 60% of the seven million people were poor but today the number was about 2.8%.

Tommy Bugis with his 4 heads of Brahman cattle. The feaces were treated with EM for organic fertilizer.

Participant petting his 4 heads of Cattle. He is feedlotting the cattle for 4 months and capable of achieving 1 kg daily weight . The feeding consists of legume, fodder and Palm Kennel Cake (PKC).

Cow-pat power

A Chinese dairy farm is installing the world’s largest system to turn steaming cow pats into enough electricity to power thousands of homes. The device at Huishan Dairy is 10 times bigger than similar systems and will take the excrement from 60,000 cows and capture methane from the fermenting pats, according to Technology Review magazine.

It will generate almost six megawatts of electricity – enough power for 3,500 American-size households but could service many more Chinese ones, which consume less energy.

The dairy in Liaoning province, north-east China, imports 3,000 cows from Australia every month just to sustain its massive stock of 250,000 cows.

The project could draw attention to the possibilities of biogas. “It shows this is not a phantom technology we have to wait for in the future,” said Ann Wilkie, professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Florida. “It’s something we can do now to deal with existing waste, and garner renewable energy.”

China’s rapidly growing dairy farming industry is a major new source of greenhouse-gas emissions.

But Huishan’s new system will prevent methane, which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, from reaching the atmosphere. It will also reduce waste and odours, and produce a valuable organic fertiliser that’s safer than raw manure.

China has become the biggest source of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming and the government has embarked on a huge programme to develop renewable energies such as hydroelectric, wind and other power sources. The Chinese government estimates that millions of small farms already have such primitive manure digesters. – AFP