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…In addition, Yap said smaller players would find it difficult to mechanize their operations because of small land area.
“Dairy farms should be developed in a large scale with the use of machines because it will be cheaper in the long run.”
He said manual labor is not only less efficient, but also incurs higher cost in the form of salary, accommodation and utility bills.
For many dairy farmers in the UK, milking involves getting up before dawn to take the cows from the paddock and into the milking shed – a process that often has to be done again in the afternoon.
But on Neale Sadler’s farm in the Midlands they have relied on robots to do the milking for the past 13 years.
He shows how his unconventional dairy farm works.
“Fatima cited the case of Lembaga Padi Beras Negara, saying it is plagued with governance issues and irregularities.
“GLCs and GLICs are capitalistic in orientation hence their main concern is return to capital,” she said.
“With their big capital they may exert their market power and hence create a high barrier to entry to new entrants or young entrepreneurs or SMEs. A monopolistic and oligopolistic market structure is not equitable and competitive and could waste taxpayers’ money,” the expert added.
Fatima has called on Putrajaya to encourage cooperatives to be involved in supply chain activities instead, citing the success seen in Taiwan and Korea.
“While farmers’ cooperatives in these countries have advanced so much where farmers sell their produce through their own hypermarkets, our cooperatives are still struggling with farm production and marketing problems,” the academic argued”… (Please check the whole article here)
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