The cattle-oil palm integration programme implemented by the Agriculture Department Sarawak has been successful in increasing the cattle population in the State. Since its implementation in year 2000, the programme has been able to increase the standing population of cattle in the 37 participating estates to10,290 heads. This represents fifty-five percent of the total cattle population in the State of 18,578 heads.
The programme, which now comes under NKEA Agriculture - Entry Point Project No. 5 (EPP 5), will continue to be the major strategy towards increasing beef cattle production in Sarawak. In this regard, PEMANDU has also agreed to extend the programme to estates larger than 15,000 hectares. That decision will allow more oil palm estates to participate in the programme, potentially bringing in an additional 250,000 hectares of estate land for cattle production, or the equivalent of an additional 45,000 heads of cattle.
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