Annual Report 2016
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Group Managing Director’s Report
(Cont’d.)
MPM Outlook Moving Forward
Prospects for export hopefully will continue to grow for QL’s
products through new capacity expansion, innovative new
product range, new market, brand and price leadership as
well as weak Ringgit.
On the domestic market, we will continue to grow our market
share through continuous investment in modern processing
technology, research and development, quality of products
as well as efficient cost of production.
We remain optimistic for MPM’s FY2017 outlook.
Integrated Livestock Farming Activities (ILF)
Integrated livestock farming activities comprise animal feed
raw material trade, layer farming, broiler integration activities
and commercial feed milling.
For the financial year under review, the group production
rate was about 4.6 million eggs per day. Approximately 40
million Day Old Chicks (DOC) and 20 million broilers were
produced annually across poultry farms in Malaysia and
Indonesia. In Malaysia, QL traded over 900,000 metric
tonnes of animal feed raw materials during the financial year.
ILF Key Developments
To be successful in ILF, not only is know-how required,
unrelenting watchfulness and operational excellence in
managing the farms are the non-negotiables.
To achieve the thrust of operational excellence, QL Poultry
Centre of Excellence initiated various programmes to
improve efficiency at all fronts, from raw material, feed mill,
broiler farming to eggs production to raise productivity and
manage operating cost.
The same weather condition that benefited MPM was less
kind on the ILF division. In FY2016, El-Nino brought heat
stress, causing farm productivity to drop. QL implemented a
number of mitigating factors to ensure good livestock health
when the extreme heat enveloped the nations we
operate in.
