The Case of Selangor Pg Farming: An Explanation

Background

The Selangor Modern Pig Farming is a pending issue that has been approved by the State Government of Selangor led by the former Mentri Besar Dato' Seri Dr. Khir Toyo on 30th January 2008.

It is done to gather all pig farming activities that are scattered throughout the state and place them in one compound.

Currently, there are 132 pig farms in this state covering the area of 475 acres. the farms have a total of 257,521 pigs and suplies 3000 pigs or equivalent to 300 tonnes per day to consumers around Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.

The pigs are raised in traditional way and this has caused a lot of problems such as water pollution, odour, and loss of aesthetic values in areas surrounding the farms.

The previous government led by Barisan Nasional was not able to handle these problems especially in the aspects of monitoring and law enforcement.

Reasons to carry out the project

This project is expected to ease the government in monitoring the pig farming activity against:

• The spread of deadly viruses such as Japanese Encaphalitis (JE) and the Nipah Virus.
• Water, river, sea and air pollution.
• seepage of sewage into the ground water.
• illegal farms that are built without lisence.
  

Location

The location at Ladang Tumbuk, Mukim Batu, Kuala Langat, Selangor is selected because:

• The plot of land is private owned.
• It is currently the largest farm in Selangor.
• Situated in the downstream area and is not a source of drinking water.
• The area has the largest majority of the ethnic chinese.
  

The Technology

Wastes produced by the farm is processed in an anaerobic digester to produce biofuel gas that contain Methane, Hydrogen Sulphide, Nitrogen Oxide, Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide. The Biofuel gas will be used to generate the electricity to power the pig farm and provide air-conditioning to the farm itself.

The treated waste water from the farm will not be released into the river but instead used to clean the pig pen and to water the crops to feed the pigs.

Funds

The funds for the project that costs RM100 million will not come from the state government. It will be sourced from:-

• The pig farmers.
• Local investors
• investors from Germany

Conclusion

Overall, this air-conditioned pig farming will reduce:-

• costs of operations
• emmisions of green house gasses
• odour
• water and irrigation pollution.

This project will be a private funded project which means that the state government does not spend a singe cent on this project.

industries such as pig slughtering and cold room could also be implimented and the system monitoring that records the in and out flow would be much easier.

Remarks

This issue has been deliberately used by UMNO by twisting the facts for their political survival. it is a planned CONSPIRACY towards Pakatan Rakyat that has been elected by the people to lead the state government.Seen here in the picture is Dato' Dr Karim Mansor the Tanjung Sepat State Assemblyman together with a village head of Kampung Ladang Tumbuk in a pig pen in Germany in 2007. He were there to discuss the possibility of bringing the German technology back here in Malaysia. This confirms that the project was owned by the previous Barisan Nasional government.