Empowering Kedah as the northern national hub for sustainable beef-cattle supply chain and production

High-value agricultural development is expected can create job opportunities, expanding business opportunities as well increase local and foreign investment. Encouragement in high-value agricultural activities can also increase income for entrepreneurs and maximize existing resources. To achieve the objectives of the research, the study aims to determine the direction of a sustainable livestock supply chain and the effectiveness of the existing slaughtering service center in Kedah. This includes factor influence in halal-logistics value creation in livestock supply chain and practices with Sharia compliance in livestock and abattoir activities. Since halal emerge as national agenda, supply chain and production also need to tap into the importance of health and hygiene of ruminant carcass especially in producing safe meat supply in the local market, practices among ruminant abattoir operators. This concept paper also will look at a new supply chain approach using the virtual marketplace to create new market segmentation and new consumer preference as well as a good return on investment. Empirical data will be collected by use a focus group. Therefore, using the Short Supply Chain, the research outcome is to ensure Kedah emerge as a national prominent hub for beef-cattle production and beef supplier in Malaysia

Sejarah jurnal jabatan sejarah Universiti Malaya

185 hlm.: ilus.; 25 c

Sejarah jurnal jabatan sejarah Universiti Malaya

185 hlm.: ilus.; 25 c

Assessment index tool for green highway in Malaysia

Green highway is a highway project that has been designed and constructed with the sustainability requirements and global standard. Basically, green highway is one of the major parts for sustainable concept where three major aspects are addressed which are economic, social and environment. The main focus for economic aspect is to increase profitability by making more efficient use of resources especially material, improve the quality of life by fulfilling the nation’s need for social aspect while protecting the environment from the impact of CO2 emission and using of natural resources efficiently for the purpose of environment aspect. Therefore, it is important for highway stakeholders to incorporate sustainable criteria in their projects. The implementation of sustainable concept in highway needs to be evaluated by green highway rating tool assessment. Thus, the purpose of this study is to establish a tool to assess and certify a green highway in Malaysia. The data for this study was obtained through group discussion with highway experts and questionnaires that were distributed to identify the sustainability factors. Then the data were analyzed using factor analysis method. The findings of this study indicated that, there are five major sustainable factor which are Sustainable Design and Construction Activities, Social and Safety, Energy Efficiency, Environmental and Water Management and Material and Technology that are included in the development of green highway rating system