Cerita lama saya tentang Contract Farming, di sini dan sini.
Juga tentang New Global Battlefield - Food Farms di sini dan sini.
Di penghujung cerita, saya tulis tentang negara-negara yang dah pun ada projek tanaman di negara luar dengan menyewa tanah. Saya ulang di sini:
- Egypt runs farms growing corn in Zambia, rice in Niger, and vegetables in Tanzania. Now it plans to grow wheat in Uganda.
- Pakistan's Board of Investment plans to put about 9.1 million ha of farmland up for lease to foreign countries and companies.
- An Australian investment group, BKK Partners, says its client is targeting 100,000ha of Cambodian land to grow rice, bananas, sugar cane, palm oil and teak. Investments worth US$600 million (S$847 million) planned.
- Jordan is planning a joint grain venture with Kazakhstan, involving US$50 million in investments.
- Investment group Saudi Star is eyeing 350,000ha in Ethiopia to plant rice, maize, sugar cane and oilseeds.
- Indonesia is targeting 1.6 million ha on Papua island for agriculture projects.
- Libya is planning farmland projects worth US$500 million in Brazil.
- United Arab Emirates' Minerals Energy Commodities Holdings is in talks to lease 100,000ha of farmland in Kalimantan, where the company has a railway and coal project worth about US$1 billion.
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Hari ini, PM Najib kata Malaysia sedang meninjau kemungkinan mengadakan pakatan dengan negara lain hendak mengeluarkan makanan.
Tapi beliau juga berkata "there was no pressing need" - tidak ada keadaan mendesak - nak membuat projek ladang makanan ini.
Secara peribadi, saya harap sungguh bahawa kerajaan Malaysia mempercepat projekkan isu ni.
Takut pulak harga beras, bawang, kentang dan sebagainya dah naik mendadak, orang dah panik, dah marah kerajaan, baru nak sign itu dan ini.
Lagi satu - belum semua negara masuk bidang ini - bercucuk tanam di negara lain.
Jadi harga tanah yang nak disewa tu - baik di Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, mahupun negara Afrika - belum lagi tinggi sangat.
Takut lambat sangat tunggu, nanti banyak negara dah buat, makin mahal harga nak bayar. Ini belum masuk harga broker lagi.
Kita berdoalah semuanya dapat berjalan lancar di bidang ini.
Kita semua tentu ingat tahun 2008 tu dulu - teruk Pak Lah kena bantai sebab naikkan harga minyak, dan harga makanan tak terkawal. Bukan salah beliau, tapi orang kalau dah marah, tentu kerajaan kena hamun.
UNTUK maklumat, Singapork dah pun nak buat di China - ladang al-khinzir. Yum, yum.
Dan di negara pulau kecik ni, pendidikan dijalankan tambah sains permakanan, sedangkan petani Singapore - ya, kat red dot ni pun ada golongan petani, tapi sedikit sangat - diberi peluang dan dibantu wang nak kembangkan business pertanian mereka. Gambar-gambar tambahan dan cerita di sini.
Singapore import 90 peratus makanannya dari luar negara, jadi tentu takut jika ada problem.
PENJAJAHAN SEMULA = THE NEW COLONISERS
TAPI, isu sewa tanah di luar negara ni isu yang sangat sensitif.
Misalnya, katalah Malaysia ada ladang padi dan sayur di Papua beribu ekar. Terjadi pada tahun 2020 harga beras dan sayuran sedunia naik gila sehingga orang Indonesia tak mampu beli. Mereka pula tahu bahawa padi-sayur yang ditanam dan dibayar oleh Malaysia tu akan dibawa ke negara yang menyewa tanah.
Tapi mereka kelaparan, anak merengek.
Adakah mereka akan biarkan kapal-kapal bawa pulang beras-sayur, atau akan menyerang sebagai pirate?
Sama juga dengan khinzir Singapore di China dan seterusnya.
Ada yang menyifatkan cara bercucuk tanam untuk dibawa keluar tu sebagai Colonisation.
Penjajahan!
Macam British dulu jajah Malaysia, keuntungan tanam gambir dan getah, dan korek perak untuk dibawa ke London untuk Queen Victoria dan King George.
Detail apa yang berlaku dalam isu sewa tanah negara lain ini, ada di FarmlandGrab.org.
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Rem
Berapa hari atau minggu stock food reserve di singapura-pura boleh bertahan tanpa ada supply baru untuk re-stock supply ?
kuat makan (dah makan gi gym, brader),
eeks saya pun tak tahu ada stock emergency makanan atau tidak.
dulu bila msia kena bird flu (beberapa tahun lalu) - spore panic kejap sebab kebanyakan ayam dan telor dari msia.
kini dah tak takut sebab supply dah dipelbagai: termasuk dari australia, brazil, chile.
yg pasir saya tahu ada stock simpnan - di tampines. baru ini ada penjenguk blog ini komen tentang bukit pasir di tampines. pasir temasek simpan banyak2 sebab jika msia, indonesia, cambodia etc tak supply (atau bot pasir tenggelam off pahang), kegiatan projek pembinaan tidak terjejas - pasir ada stock 3bulan. sebab jika harga pasir melonjak mendadak maka harga rumah, pejabat semua takut terjejas.
ah! baru kejap ni saya jumpa emergency rice stock spore setelah google - dlm 2008 apabila orang spore panic beli beras banyak2 sebab harga dunia naik, govt spore tunjuk warehouse di mana di simpan beras 3bulan:
http://www.asiatoday.com.au/feature_reports.php?id=318
(baca para kedua).
kerana anda bertanya, kami semua dapat maklumat baru! terima kaseyyy.
msia ada emergency rice stock?
ada!
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/bernama-malaysian-national-news-agency/mi_8082/is_20080513/malaysias-rice-buffer-stock-rises/ai_n51583856/
Pardon me, somehow I am amiss of your writings on food security and hence your great concern. Perhaps I was late into blogging.
Your links in the posting are very useful in providing much information at the global scale.
We submitted a memorandum along with a write-up to the previous Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani
on 2 Oktober 2007, and herewith (memorandum) reproduced:
YAB Tan Sri Muhyidin Yassin
Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani
Pejabat Menteri
Aras 17, Wisma Tani
No 28, Persiaran Perdana
Presint 4, 62624 Putrajaya
Yang Amat Berhormat Menteri,
Per: Memorandum untuk Menubuhkan Agensi Khas Penyelidikan Padi dan Beras Malaysia
Merujuk perkara diatas kami dari pihak Sustainable Living Institute (SAVE) ingin mengemukakan memorandum kapada pihak Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani agar mengambil langkah untuk meningkatkan teknologi dan logistik kesemua aspek pengeluaran, pemprosesan, pemasaran padi dan beras negara secara menyeluruh digembelingi oleh satu agensi/institusi/lembaga ditubuhkan khas memajukan sektor padi dan beras.
Strategi menubuhkan agensi khas di jangkakan lebih berkesan untuk mencapai matlamat pengeluaran beras negara mencukup 100% mahupun lebih. Kita mengambil contoh tanaman seperti getah, kelapa sawit dan koko yang telah pesat maju selepas diwujudkan institusi penyelidikan atau lembaga masing-masing.
Diunjurkan bahawa daya pengeluaran negara-negara pengeksport beras akan berkurangan kerana bilangan dan keperluan penduduk sentiasa meningkat. Tanaman padi pula menghadapi cabaran dalam ekosistem dari aspek iklim, kesuburan tanah, pencemaran, pengairan, banjir, musuh dan lain-lain faktor yang kian meruncing dan tentu akan mengurangkan kadar hasil dan keluasan tanaman padi. Dalam keadaan tersebut Malaysia
tidak seharusnya bergantung kapada import terutamanya untuk keperluan generasi akan datang.
Bersama ini dilampirkan juga hujah-hujah dan maklumat-maklumat lain yang berkenaan agar memorandum ini mendapat perhatian dan tindakan dari pihak Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani.
Sekian dan terima kasih.
Yang benar,
(signed)
DR SHAHARUDIN SAAMIN
Director,
Sustainable Living Institute (SAVE)
Rem
trima kaseyy kerana tolong jawab. tapi beras saja ke? macamana gula, minyak masak dan segala bahan asas memasak . Nak tanam ubi kayu pun tak ada tempat. Garam tu boleh la guna air laut.
macamana kalau semua laluan bekalan tersekat... berapa lama boleh tahan berpuasa. Umat M okey la
Ps saya ni kuat makan angin saja.
The above memorandum also appeared in Che Det's blog on Sept 23, 2009 with a preamble as below:
"Rice is now becoming a Malthusian nightmare. For a long, long time we refused to believe that such a phenomenon could not happen. Many people especially the politicians held the view that is easier and cheaper to import. The fallacy is that it is only valid for a short term policy.
Barely six months ago, Eastern Times kindly published my first article entitled “Our rice equation and food security”. The date to be exact was September 24, 2007 under Reader’s View column to what is now Avant Garde. The article was actually a condensed version of a paper presented at the PWTC, Kuala Lumpur a year before.
My concern and conviction that our country is not doing enough and doing it right with rice has been bugging me since early 1990’s. At one point I asked the Deputy Director, MARDI why we are neglecting hill or dry padi research. His answer was that the yield of dry padi was too low compared to wet padi. He missed the point that is what MARDI is for - to carry out research and develop technologies to overcome problems. One should not forget that there are communities in the interior which are so dependent on hill padi and they need help.
During an evening session conducted by members of the Agricultural Institute of Malaysia (AIM) with Datuk Effendi Norwawi, who was the Minister of Agriculture then, I raised the issue on rice supply. I said that the country need to jettison strategically for a 100% self-sufficiency. There was an urgent need to review policy and revamp rice research, production, marketing, and other ancillary functions and activities in a wholesome approach."
Rice planting in many states especially Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, and Johore has declined to almost non-existent. Padi cultivation is a tradition. Embedded with it is culture, passion, excitement, willingness to be out there in the open field rain or shine - get muddy, bitten by leeches, razed by the sharp edges of padi leaves. It is still a back-breaking way of life though machineries have taken away much of the drudgeries. Part of culture is gone when we do not plant rice. The Kadazan of Sabah can rightly celebrate their rice festival ‘Keamatan’ because they still plant rice.
Last October, Sustainable Living Institute (SAVE) sent a memorandum along with a twenty page write-up (power-point format) as attachment to the former Minister of Agriculture. We did not receive any reply. We are not sure whether the memorandum reached him for by the look of it his personal secretary was not convinced of the urgency we put forth.
The above memorandum also appeared in Che Det's blog on Sept 23, 2009 with a preamble as below:
"Rice is now becoming a Malthusian nightmare. For a long, long time we refused to believe that such a phenomenon could not happen. Many people especially the politicians held the view that is easier and cheaper to import. The fallacy is that it is only valid for a short term policy.
Barely six months ago, Eastern Times kindly published my first article entitled “Our rice equation and food security”. The date to be exact was September 24, 2007 under Reader’s View column to what is now Avant Garde. The article was actually a condensed version of a paper presented at the PWTC, Kuala Lumpur a year before.
My concern and conviction that our country is not doing enough and doing it right with rice has been bugging me since early 1990’s. At one point I asked the Deputy Director, MARDI why we are neglecting hill or dry padi research. His answer was that the yield of dry padi was too low compared to wet padi. He missed the point that is what MARDI is for - to carry out research and develop technologies to overcome problems. One should not forget that there are communities in the interior which are so dependent on hill padi and they need help.
During an evening session conducted by members of the Agricultural Institute of Malaysia (AIM) with Datuk Effendi Norwawi, who was the Minister of Agriculture then, I raised the issue on rice supply. I said that the country need to jettison strategically for a 100% self-sufficiency. There was an urgent need to review policy and revamp rice research, production, marketing, and other ancillary functions and activities in a wholesome approach."
Rice planting in many states especially Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, and Johore has declined to almost non-existent. Padi cultivation is a tradition. Embedded with it is culture, passion, excitement, willingness to be out there in the open field rain or shine - get muddy, bitten by leeches, razed by the sharp edges of padi leaves. It is still a back-breaking way of life though machineries have taken away much of the drudgeries. Part of culture is gone when we do not plant rice. The Kadazan of Sabah can rightly celebrate their rice festival ‘Keamatan’ because they still plant rice.
Last October, Sustainable Living Institute (SAVE) sent a memorandum along with a twenty page write-up (power-point format) as attachment to the former Minister of Agriculture. We did not receive any reply. We are not sure whether the memorandum reached him for by the look of it his personal secretary was not convinced of the urgency we put forth.
BATALKAN PROJEK IKAN AROWANA DIBUKIT MERAH.
Persatuan pengguna pulau pinang(CAP)menggesa Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani serta kerajaan negeri Perak membatalkan projek ternakan ikan arowana dekat Bukit Merah dalam daerah Kerian.
Projek yang bermula sejak tahun 2000 itu dalam skala kecil dengan tidak sampai 10 pengusaha,kini sedang diusahakan oleh 70 pengusaha yang melibatkan 143 hektar tanah sawah(355 ekar)dengan pembinaan sebanyak 3,808 buah kolam.
CAP kesal dan hairan bagaimana Kementerian Pertanian dan kerajaan negeri Perak, termasuk jabatan serta agensi berkaitan boleh membenarkan dan membiarkan perusahaan ternakan ikan arowana ini beroperasi dengan sewenang wenangnya.
CAP menegaskan,jika projek ini diteruskan tanah pertanian(sawah)akan terancam dan berkurangan dan pengeluaran BERAS serta bekalan makanan termasuk ekonomi negara akan tergugat pada masa akan datang.
Apakah ikan hiasan ini lebih penting dari kehidupan petani dan makanan untuk rakyat pada masa akan datang?.
Berita penuh malaysia kini.com/letters/148837.
komen:Lu pikiaq pikiaq la sendiri..
Mr Save/Dr Shah,
isu tanam makanan ni jawapannya mudah. kita tanya soalan ini:
- Angkat tangan siapa yg mahu anak mereka kerja jadi pesawah padi? kerja tanam sayur di bawah mentari panas terik?
- Angkat tangan siapa yg mahu anak mereka kerja dlm ofis aircon, pakai tie atau baju cantik?
atau kita tukar sikit, ada dua mamat tu duduk kat meja restoran mahal, dua2 ada mercedes besar, lalu kita ke meja itu dan bertanya dgn mereka - kamu kaya ni kerja apa? mana yg lebih bangga - orang yg kata dia akauntan atau yg kata dia tauke ladang telor ayam?
(cuma kalau dia kata dia tauke ladang durian, ikan tilapia atau sawit agaknya baru dia bangga).
kita telah diajar dari kecik bahawa pertanian kerja kotor, panas, utk orang miskin.
dlm satu artikel saya pernah tulis tu, dr mahathir apabila orang tanya beliau tentang skim pertanian yg dilancarkan pak lah masa tu jadi pm, jawabnya lebih kurang:
Berapa banyak kontena sayuran kita kena keluarkan nak beli satu kereta Honda?
beliau lebih suka msia jadi manufacturing hub. niatnya baik - agar pendapatan rakyat semua terus naik.
tapi itulah yg saya sebut tadi: semua telah dipsycho bahawa pertanian hanya utk orang bergaji rendah.
bukan dr m saja, di mana jua pun - vietnam, cambodia, china, india. semua negara nak jadikan negara mereka manufacturing hubs. tak mahu rakyat tanam sayur dan padi, jadi lembu dan ayam.
farming is seen as the job of last resort - macam kat indonesia tu - mereka nak buka ladang makanan dan terus buka ladang sawit (utk syarikat msia), kerana tak dapat tarik pelaburan buat factory ke hujung papua dan sumatra.
di amerika saja mereka bangga jadi peanut, corn dan soya bean farmers (saya pernah tunjuk gambar dari pesawat ladang2 mereka yg begitu besar sesama kunjungi amerika bulan mei).
di spore hanya baru2 ni ada kesedaran ini bahaya: tanpa pertanian kita semua nak makan apa?!?! makan kasut nike? kunyah computer chips? gigit textile yg baru dibuat difactory?
dulu saya senang hati dgn menteri pertanian effendi norwawi yg cuba menjadikan pertanian ni satu business. ini zaman pak lah. tapi effendi merajuk politik terus turun. diganti muhyiddin, semangat nak businesskan pertanian dah kurang dan pak lah pun goyang, maka projek semua kena humban.
apa yg perlu dibuat? seperti biasa, manusia ni apabila dah problem besar baru sedar nanti. saya orang kerdil.
tapi memang saya khuatir bahawa mekanisma di msia tak cukup apabila harga beras dan barang makanan naik. apabila canai dan nasi lemak dan daging dah naik, baru nanti kita sibuk.
kuat makan,
saya tak tahu jika selain beras, singapork ada simpan emergency foods yg lain.
cuma saya pernah tulis bahawa temasek ada import liquid eggs and powdered eggs agar ika telor ayam biasa tak ada, orang tak panik.
baca di sini:
http://remgold.blogspot.com/2010/03/nak-makan-telor-cair-dalam-bungkusan.html
eeks tak sedap saya makan telor power ni! apa nak buat, jika emergency.
alunbm,
projek arowana boleh dilakukan, tapi kena sanggup kongsi air dgn pesawah. jgn tauke arowana pemerintah perak pakatan dulu syiok sendiri. padahnya tak bagus.
saya pernah ke ladang arowana terbesar di asia tenggara - di parit sulong, johor.
kaya apek dua orang tu pelihara arowana.
syarikat tu di sini:
http://www.xianleng.com.my/English/Profile/index.html
tapi kena kerja sama dgn jiran2 semua. bukan syiok sendiri.
sama macam bakun dam ni. dia nak air, maka air sungai surut dan orang semua mampoi dia tak kisah. apa kejadah ni?!?!
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