'Feedlot project not in a mess'

The National Feedlot Corp (NFC) has denied that a plan is in disarray, instead it has met a aim set by a government.

Its chairman Mohamad Salleh Ismail pronounced as a 30-year stipulate was customarily in a third year, teething problems during initial theatre were to be expected.

"In fact, NFC has raised 8,016 head of cattle in 2010, surpassing a aim of 8,000 head of cattle.

pakatan rakyat convoy revisit national feedlot corporation 031111 abbatoir"We have been importing cattle from Australia as well as we have to feed them for in between four as well as 6 months. We do not massacre them shortly after arrival.

"We will not massacre a cattle if there is no market. And when they have been not ! slaughte red, cattle feed costs will additionally increase," he pronounced when commenting upon a Auditor-General's Report during a NSC office in Gemas today.

The AG's Report pronounced that NFC was in a mess as well as a production final year were customarily 3,289 head of cattle or 41 per cent of a aim set.

Mohamad Salleh pronounced during a outset of a operation in 2009, NFC had nonetheless to find a marketplace whilst a abattoir was customarily authorized in Apr that year, halal acceptance dual months later as well as a Veterinary Health Mark, that was mandatory prior to beef could be sold, in 2010.

He pronounced NFC additionally needed to send a employees for precision to acquire specific skills to run a operation.

NONEOn a bad condition of a highway leading to a farm, he pronounced it was a ! open hig hway as well as a maintenance was not enclosed in NFC's budget.

NFC is land a contention with applicable ministries to plant grass upon a highway shoulder whilst a shop-worn pond will be remade in stages, he added.

Mohamad Salleh pronounced a plantation had usually been influenced by floods when it was visited by officers from a Auditor-General's Department.

The headlines conference was additionally attended by NFC lawyer Mohamed Shafee Abdullah, corporate as well as monetary expert Zakaria Mohammad as well as executive Wan Shahinur Izmir Mohamad Salleh.

RM250 million not a grant

NFC performed a loan of RM250 million from a government as well as it is not a grant, pronounced Mohamad Salleh.

He pronounced a loan must be repaid as any blurb loan, despite certain concessions given.

The RM250 million, during an seductiveness rate of dual per cent, was repayable commencing upon a third year of full value of a pronounced loan as well as upon execution of a building a whole of an trade peculiarity abattoir, he said.

"Currently a loan has not been fully disbursed to a NFC. There is RM69 million of a remaining loan to be utilised," he told a press conference to address allegations by PKR upon a NFC's performance.!

NONEMohammad Salleh pronounced a loan was placed in Special Loans Account though a drawdown routine was compulsory prior to supports could be utilized by a NFC.

On a claim that a Meatworks sequence of restaurants perceived special bonus amounting to RM2.9 million in 2009, Mohammad Salleh pronounced a same bonus was perceived by all 70 business it had during that time.

Creating Meatworks as a brand name in selling peculiarity beef had enabled NFC to dig in ! to an al ready firmly managed as well as tranquil market, Mohammad Salleh said.

"People cannot hold that Malaysia can produce good peculiarity premium meat," he added.

On a aloft price of NFC cattle compared to cows purchased in Malaysia, Mohammad Salleh pronounced a NFC cows customarily weighed 70-100 per! cent mo re than local cows.

Mohammad Salleh pronounced NFC now had 150 client companies as well as a couple of of a biggest clients were Jusco, Giant as well as Cold Storage.

NFC granted 46 per cent of a beef to soppy markets, 20 per cent to hypermarkets, 22 per cent went to processing beef for burgers as well as patties as well as customarily eleven per cent to hotels, restaurants as well as catering companies, he said.

He pronounced in a three years since a inception, NFC had managed to develop infrastructure such as feedlot, abattoir, feedstore as well as cold rooms.

Next year, he pronounced NFC would embark upon stipulate farming.

"We have already broken-even as well as design to register a profit," he added.

A place to play ground a money

Answering allegations by PKR that questioned a company's acquisition of common ownership units in Bangsar, Mohamad Salleh in asaid a purchase of dual units during a One Menerung common ownership amounting RM6.9 million each was a blurb preference to hedge unutilised supports for an abbatoir project, that was delayed though not during a fault of a NFC.

"We can put it in bound dep! osit though face loss of value because our inflation is higher.

"While waiting for a plan to start, we needed to find a place where we could play ground a money reduced for term, equivocate debasement as well as have increase almost yearly," he said.

NONEMohammad Salleh pronounced ideally, leaving a supports in bound deposits would be reduction argumentative though would not give a association a required yield from supports of this size.

NFC corporate as well as monetary expert Zakaria Mohammad pronounced a organisation perceived about RM700,000 remission per unit for dual years from a developers as well as they additionally done arrangement for NFC for a let of a units with a on trial yield during about RM200,000 per year.

NFC would have about RM3.6 million from both units for a initial dual years that have been 2010 as well as 2011, all of that would be credited to a NFC group, he said.

Mohammad Salleh pronounced a purpose of a loan since to NFC was undoubtly for cattle tillage as well as infrastructure.

Therefore, nonetheless shopping condos was a depart from a purpose of a loan, a properties were still kept in a name as well as books of a company.

It was a matter of converting a property behind in to cash during a preferred distinction as well as there was neither unfair enrichment nor dishonesty of any in isolation individuals, he added.

- Bernama
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