Today I met James Ng Boon Khong with Leong Hup Contract Farming Sdn. Bhd. and ayam A1 Food Corporation Sdn. Bhd. He spent five years studying at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond and had looked up where Goltry is on the internet. By the way, he is not the first person with Oklahoma ties I have met here. When I went to the palm oil plantation on Carey Island, the director of their Golden Hope Academy education center went to the University of Oklahoma. It was nice to meet people who understood where I am from. James and I traveled quite a distance to one of the company’s poultry farms. It is a closed barn system much like in the U.S. the only real difference is that there is less automation since labor is less expensive here. They had recently shipped most of the chickens from this farm and had mostly empty barns. There was one barn that had chicks put in it yesterday. There is a picture of the new chicks below. The chicks have the same genetics that you would find in the U.S and the company runs in much the same way that the poultry companies run in America. One exception is that this farm is owned by the company but they do also have contract growers. Most of their ingredients for their feed come from Argentina. They sell the poultry litter to plantations for fertilizer and aren’t experiencing any of the legal issues that the poultry industry is in Oklahoma.
As I had reported in a previous post the government has set a ceiling price for chicken in Malaysia that is below the actual cost of production. However, from what I can tell it only relates to fresh or frozen chicken not to further processed products. Therefore this company is producing a variety of value added products using their poultry meat in order to survive and make a profit. At lunch we ate at a local Chinese restaurant in a relatively small town. Later this evening I have dinner with several Malaysian Eisenhower Fellows.
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