HULU TERENGGANU, Feb 10 (Bernama) -- AGDB Venture Sdn Bhd, a company
owned by graduate entrepreneurs in Kuala Berang, plans to further
strengthen its economy by cultivating sugar cane and okra on a reserved
land area around a pond where it is already rearing fish seedlings for
business.
Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsbusiness.php?id=927324
Published: February 12, 2013
The Bumiputera company expects to invest RM50,000 on the project which
will take off next month and bring in additional income for the company.
Its Managing Director, Mohd Romzi Abdullah, said from the investment,
RM30,000 will be spent on planting sugar cane and the remaining RM20,000
on okra or brinjal.
"This latest project for extra income follows the rearing of keli, patin, baung and talapia fish," he told Bernama here today.
On the sugar cane project, he said about 20,000 seeds brought from
Johor would be planted and this was expected to produce about 100,000
stalks.
"Normally, sugar cane can be harvested within eight to nine months when
it is matured and it can fetch a price of between RM1 and RM1.20 per
stalk."
Marketing of the produce would be done by the company itself and this
could be both the fresh stalks or in the processed form to schools and
students in higher learning institutions, Romzi said.
As for the okra, he said the planting would cover one acre of the
reserved area at the fish pond in Ajil here and also another area in
Bukit Payong, Marang.
"We already have 5,000 okra seedlings ready for planting and the
produce would be marketed around the Kuala Terengganu area when they are
ripe in three months time."
On the company's fish rearing, Romzi said one million seedlings
comprising baung, keli, talapia and patin fish are produced every year
to be supplied to government departments and agencies.
The company currently has seven fish rearing ponds with all of them located in Ajil and Bukit Payong.
-- BERNAMA
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