Sea Cucumber

Entry Point Projects (EPPs) GNI million Job Private Investment
(RM million) Public Investment
(RM million)

1 National Seaweed Nucleus 420 13,788 359 182

2 Sabah Agro Industrial Precint (SAIP) 195 399 584 94

3 Taman Kekal Pengeluaran Makanan (TKPM) 35 479 13 47

4 Integrated Marine Fish Culture 710 1,981 804 21

5 Swiflet Commercial Centre (SCC) 405 7,648 167 13

6 High Finned Grouper & Barramundi 995 760 118 32

7 Integrated Shrimp Aquaculture 267 3,626 716 48

8 Sea Cucumber & Tiger Grouper Combine Culture 555 930 100 41

Total
3,582 29,611 2,861 478

EPP 6 : HIGH FINNED GROUPER & BARRAMUNDI
EPP 7 : INTEGRATED SHRIMP AQUACULTURE IN PINTASAN & TELAGA
EPP 8 : SEA CUCUMBER AND TIGER GROUPER COMBINE CULTURE

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Sea Cucumber

EPP 8 : SEA CUCUMBER AND TIGER GROUPER COMBINE CULTURE

Key outcomes of the EPP
• Fish production 12,600 tones & Sea Cucumber production 2,304 tones. • Achieve consistent survival rate of over 70% • Create a minimum 930 job opportunities • Improve skill level of local workers – especially in handling and husbandry • Maintain a minimum 50% of total output for local consumption • Achieve local and international quality certification – ASC, SPLAM & others

	What needs to be done?
	• Allocation of land at proposed project site • Support of government / private financial institution • Continuous training of local workers to improve handling and husbandry skills • Improvement in basic infrastructure (roads, piped water, electricity)

	Key Challenges
	• Small scaled production & located far from processing facility • Low production volumes & low quality produce • Availability / formulation of sustainable fish feed • Maintain water quality at major rivers / coastal areas • Improved air connectivity to major consuming market (in terms of loads & frequency)

		Mitigation Plan
		• Engage UMS / feed mills to formulate sustainable feed & local food processors / slaughter houses for purchase their meat refuse • Laboratory to test water quality before discharging into grow-out ponds • Upgrade of air-cargo facility to utilize live fish export containers – enable to carry higher volume (500kg vs 5kg) • Setup in-house grow out farms

Facilities
• Deep freezer (-48°C) Capacity 10 tons per day
• Cold Storage (-18°C) Capacity Storage 400 tons

Facilities
• Air drying facility
• Capacity: 500kg per cycle
• Drying time: 8 hours

Sea Ranching with Local Community Aim: Alleviate rural poverty
• Distribute 1,500 sea cucumber, 60% survival rate
• Ranching output 900 sea cucumber per year (1 kg each)
• Contract buyback price RM40/kg
• Annual alternative income RM36,000 (RM3,000 per month3 participants 1st year

End Product
• Frozen & Cleaned Sea Cucumber
• Dried & Cleaned Sea Cucumber
• Live Tiger Grouper export via air cargo

Job opportunity At Nursery & Grow-Out Farms
• Blue Collar: 350
• White Collar: 100

Job opportunity At Processing Plant & Technology Center
• Blue Collar: 350
• White Collar: 130

Hatchery & Nursery
• Kg Binsuluk (5 acres)

Grow Out Farms (300 acres)
• Kuala Penyu & Kg Binsuluk
• Kg Rumbiso, Matunggung
• Kg Rosoh, Kota Marudu
• Kuala Abai, Kota Belud

Integrated Processing Plant (8 acres)
• Sabah Agro-Industrial Preinct, Kimanis

R&D Facility
• SAIP Technology Park – Hatchery Technology
• KKIP Technology Park – Processing Research

Edited on August 02, 2021 03:31:59 AM by Michael

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