KUALA LUMPUR: Fraser & Neave Holdings Bhd
(F&) has received its first commercial batch of 2,500 dairy heifers from Chile to F&N Agrivalley, the groups' integrated dairy farm in Gemas, Negeri Sembilan.
In a statement, F&N CEO Lim Yew Hoe said the transfer of the Chilean Holstein cattle marks the largest-ever single importation of breeding cattle in Malaysia.
“These Chilean Holstein cattle have been 100% genomically tested and have a Genomic Total Performance Index (GTPI) that is on par with the performance standards of the heifers we had originally planned to import from the US,” he added.
The cattle were transported from Santiago, Chile, via a livestock carrier to Pasir Gudang, Johor, where they were unloaded and transported to F&N Agrivalley in three days.
F&N managing director of agriculture and dairy farming Dr Yap Peng Kang said the cattle are healthy and will undergo
a mandatory quarantine period at the country’s largest on-site quarantine facilities for a single livestock batch.
"The cattle are housed within F&N AgriValley in state-of-the-art barns equipped with an intelligent environmental control system to provide optimum comfort for our livestock,” he said.
