Agro Industry Cluster

Head of Cluster

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasbullah Hj. Muhammad

Background

The cluster covers on all aspects of Agro Industry which are based directly or indirectly from agricultural activities. The wide scope SIG of the cluster will cut across all the faculties in UniSZA where any niche of specialization could easily be incorporated into the cluster. However, any project to be proposed should be incorporated with economic sustainability and industrial potential.

List of Special Interest Group (SIG)

NO.	SIG	Products/Services	Members	Faculty/ Institute
1	Sustainable Crop Production	This group will focus on research and Development of selected crops for optimal production with respect to technology, profitability and sustainability	Prof. Dr. Mohd Ekhwan Toriman Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jamil Zakaria	The Deputy Vice Chancellor Agropolis
2	Food Security	This group will focus onsustainability of the existing major food crop in Malaysia and other potential future alternative food crops and livestock production system	Prof. Dr. Che Abdullah Bin Abu Bakar	Faculty of Bioresources & Food Industry
3	Agro – Business	The group will study the business model, supply chain, marketing strategy and franchise system for agricultural produce	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nalini Arumugam	Agropolis
4	High Technology Food Crop Production	The group will study the emerging l technology in crops and livestock with respect to pest control and production system	Dr. Mohd. Hudzari Bin Haji Razali Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abd Jamil Zakaria	Faculty of Bioresources & Food Industry Agropolis
5	Application of Beneficial Microbes in Crops and Livestock Production System	This group will focus on the application of beneficial organism (microbes) in crops and livestock application for sustainable production	Prof. Dr. Mohamad Aziz Bin Taib Dato' Dr. Azahar Bin Idris	Faculty of Bioresources & Food Industry

Activity :-

Utilization of Oilpalm Fronds for Beneficial Value Added Products.

Preliminary meetings were been carried out between UKM and UMP. The UKM group was represented by Prof Sanusi Jangi and Prof Othman Omar from Institute of BioScience. The discussion was focussed on the utilization of oil palm frond as raw material for livestock feed. Whle UMP has applied a KTP grant in using low energy utilization of processing oilpalm fronds into subsequent value added products.

The ongoing project under KTP ( knowledge transfer program) under flagship project at Unisza, ‘Utilization of oilpalm fronds (OPF)as a ruminant feed” UniSZA collaboration with a private sector (Pinang Pertiwi Sdn Bhd) in the process of developing a complete ruminant feed formulation from OPF.

The Agro Industry sector has called a joint preliminary meeting with Agropolis and Biomedical cluster at faculty FPBSM to discuss the overlapping function and constrains in implemeting the program. The meeting across the faculties will be carried out soon.