Why NFC wants to expand market to Singapore when Singapore bans the import of raw beef from Malaysia...

Tony Pua(left) asked today why the National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) is looking to expand to Singapore when the island republic bans the import of raw beef from Malaysia?

The DAP publicity chief pointed out that Singapore’s Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) only permitted processed beef such as sausages, patties, meatballs and smoked meat to be brought in.

Even then, only five companies were allowed to do so — Mac Food Sdn Bhd, Nestle Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, PAP Cashnet Sdn Bhd, Unilever Bestfoods Sdn Bhd and Lucky Food Processing Sdn Bhd.

“NFCorp has not been given any approval to export its beef or processed meat to Singapore... Is this not a clear case of putting the cart before the cows?” he said in a statement.

Pua said NFCorp must also answer claims that the RM250 million loan it was granted by Putrajaya had been used as leverage to obtain commercial bank loans used to start a supermarket venture in Singapore.

Running a supermarket was different from exporting beef, he noted, saying that the sale of beef products would do very little to increase demand for Malaysian beef in Singapore.

“If promoting beef from NFCorp is indeed the overriding objective... then Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh either completely lacks business sense or is lying through his teeth to justify use of public funds,” he said.

NFCorp chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail told The Malaysian Insider yesterday the company intends to sell its beef products abroad as the local market was too small to support its intended output.

Salleh explained that NFCorp was now building up the market in Singapore and will do the same in Indonesia as the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) was on target to produce 78,000 tonnes of beef by 2015.

The NFC, which is supervised by NFCorp, was set up in 2007 to provide food security and attain 40 per cent self-sufficiency for beef production by 2015.

“When we have this many tonnes of beef, the Malaysian market will not buy everything so we have to find other places to sell,” Salleh said yesterday.

However, he declined to comment on his family’s alleged links to Farmhouse Supermarkets in Singapore, only stating that NFCorp would issue a statement soon to “explain in the proper context”.

PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli, who has led opposition attacks against NFCorp, said today the company has no business expanding overseas if it cannot meet even production quotas for the local market.

The NFC only managed to produce 400 tonnes of beef annually in its first two years of operation, or only 0.8 per cent of the government’s 50,000-tonne yearly target, he claimed.

NFCorp hit the headlines after it made it into the Auditor-General’s Report last year, and has continued to hog the limelight after it was linked to federal minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil.

Salleh, a former food science head at Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM), is Shahrizat’s husband. He runs the company with their three children.

PKR has made several claims of abuse over NFCorp’s federal loan involving over RM62 million spent on land, property and other expenses unrelated to cattle raising.-malaysian insider

NFC venturing into S'pore absurd...

PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli said National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) chairperson Salleh Ismail's explanation that the local market is too small hence the need to expand overseas, does not make any sense.

This is because NFC's current beef output is way behind the target set by the government, one of the criteria for awarding the RM250 million soft loan to the corporation, said Rafizi.

Comparing the output target stated in the official website of veterinary service department with NFC's current production, Rafizi found that the company's output in 2010 only met 0.8 percent of the department's target in 2009.

According to Rafizi, NFC had slaughtered 1,914 cows from 2008 to 2010, producing 400 tonnes beef annually (assuming every cow slaughtered gives 200kg of meat), but the government's target in 2009 was 50,000 tonnes.

"NFC has no right to talk about new market abroad as long as it has not met the target to supply 40 percent of domestic market, because that is the purpose of setting up NFC.

"Salleh's statement that the local market is too small for NFC output is a lie that insults the intelligence of Malaysians," said the PKR leader.

Rafizi reiterated that he is still awaiting NFC's official statement explaining why the government loan was used to invest in overseas businesses unrelated to the purpose of the loan.


Yesterday Salleh, the husband of Family, Women, and Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, told online news portal The Malaysian Insider that NFC was building up the market in Singapore and was eyeing Indonesia next. Read here.

He said this was necessary as the National Feedlot Centre would produce 78,000 tonnes of beef by 2015 once its abattoir becomes operational, more than what the Malaysian market needed.

"When we have this many tonnes of beef, the Malaysian market will not buy everything so we have to find other places to sell," he was quoted as saying.

However, Salleh declined to comment on Rafizi's allegation that his family has misused the soft loan to open a premier supermarket in Singapore, only saying that NFC would issue a statement soon to "explain (the matter) in the proper context".- malaysiakini

NFC buka pasaran di S'pura 'tak masuk akal', kata PKR

Pengarah strategi PKR Rafizi Ramli hari ini membidas kenyataan "tidak masuk akal" oleh pengerusi National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) Datuk Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail berhubung tindakan syarikat berkenaan membuka pasaran di Singapura.

Rafizi berkata, NFC juga tidak berhak untuk bercakap mengenai pasaran baru di luar negara sedangkan pengeluaran daging oleh syarikat itu jauh meleset daripada sasaran.

"(Dr Mohamad Salleh) memberikan alasan bahawa pasaran Malaysia untuk membeli daging dari NFC terlalu kecil dan tidak dapat memenuhi pengeluaran NFC. Malah, beliau turut membayangkan hasrat NFC untuk membuka operasi di Indonesia dalam masa yang terdekat.

"Saya berasa kesal kerana alasan yang diberikan tidak dapat diterima akal oleh rakyat Malaysia. NFC sehingga sekarang masih gagal untuk mencapai sasaran yang ditetapkan oleh kerajaan sebagai syarat untuk mendapatkan projek Pusat Fidlot Kebangsaan dan dana awam RM250 juta," kata Rafizi dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.

Beliau membuat perbandingan itu berdasarkan sasaran pengeluaran yang dinyatakan di laman web jabatan berkenaan.

Katanya, lagi pengeluaran syarikat tersebut pada 2010 hanya memenuhi 0.8 peratus daripada sasaran yang ditetapkan oleh Jabatan Perkhidmatan Veterinar pada 2009.

Kenyataan Rafizi itu timbul ekoran penjelasan dibuat Dr Mohamad Salleh berhubung dakwaan bahawa NFC memiliki satu pasaraya mewah di Singapura. Baca di sini.

Dr Mohamad Salleh dilaporkan ini sebagai berkata, NFC membina pasaran di Singapura, dan juga di Indonesia, untuk menampung kemampuan pengeluaran dagingnya sebanyak 78,000 tan menjelang 2015.- malaysiakini

Mohd.Salleh sir, when you cant even meet local demands, you talk about new markets, hello!!! from cow shit to bull-shit...

cheers.