Ready R&D for

Commercialisation

PROF. MADYA. DR. SUHAIMI BIN MD. YASIR Ketua Pengarah Unit Penyelidikan Rumpai Laut UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH Email: ysuhaimi@ums.edu.my; suhaimi.yasir@gmail.com Tel: +6016-9033840 Fax: +6088-435324

Bio-Borneo 2013, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 19 – 20 February 2013

Best Example

- Seaweed

Short term cultivation – High value products

- EPP 3

NKEA

GNI

Create

Employment

Private

Investment

Transformation

Ation

Focus

Competitive

(Quality and

Standard)

Fulfill ETP Objectives

Entrepreneur /Private Co/GLC

R&D

Government Business

communities/Banks

Development

of Industry

1. How it works?

Driver:- Private Sector

Facilitator:- Government

2. Improved management system

Conventional : Labour intensive - 80% at sea farm, 20% on platform.

Mini Estate : 80% on platform, 20% at sea farm.

80% works on platform

3. Productivity and Income

1. Productivity

(TM/ha/yr)

10.0

1.5

2010 2020

527%

13.5

150.0

CAGR = 24%

2020 2010

2. Increment of productivity

(‘000 TM/yr)

3,021

1,031

2x

Konvensional Estet Mini

3. Income per farmer

(RM/month)

4. Value of project

0

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

140,000

160,000

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Year

TM

(D

ry)

200 mil

280 mil

420 mil

530 mil

780 mil

920 mil

1.05 bil

1.18 bil

1.32 bil

1.45 bil

Requirements

1. Suitable Area (100-500 AC)

2. Management

3. Technology (From R&D)

4. Capital

History -

How do we start?

1. R & D – Solving people’s problem

2. Innovation

3. Pre-commercialisation

4. Commercialisation

Stages

Scopes of R&D&C

Biotechnology

Cultivation

Post-harvest

Processing

Down Stream

Processing

Marketing

Product

Development

1

2

3

4

5

6

Socio-economy

Quality and Standard

7

8

Supporting R&D

Value Chain

Patent:-PI 2011005096 (MyIPO)

Patent:-Filing

EPP 3

NKEA

Agriculture

Pulau Banggi, Kudat

1998 - 2008

Semporna

2008 - now

Started

here

Research Station at Pulau Banggi, Kudat

1998 - 2008

Pulau Banggi, Kudat

Research Station at Pulau Sebangkat, Semporna

2008 - 2010

Objective

Improvement of

cultivation practices.

Higher Income

Conventional practices

Renovation works.

1. Selection of varieties

Breeding and seedling preparation

2. Seedling management

3. Tying Table

4. Cultivation method

Eco-friendly Tie-tie

Conservation of biodiversity

5. Fertiliser formulation

To increase growth

and yield

6. Mechanisation for harvesting

Less labour for

farming and harvesting

7. Drying System

Simple and Efficient

Sauna Dry

High

Quality

Seaweed

Exposition

Roadshow

Advertisement

Lombok, Indonesia 2012

UMS SEAWEED SHOWCASE FEBRUARI 2013

8. Marketing

Pilot Project

1

2

3

4

4°34’21.28”N

118°41’41.44”E

4°33’57.68”N

118°41’30.14”E

4°33’57.74”N

118°41’57.28”E

4°34’14.59”N

118°42’07.25”E

80 ha

Kompleks

bersepadu (1

ha)

Permission - Taman-Taman Sabah

Value – RM2.1 mil. Funded by Jabatan Perikanan Malaysia

Kampung Pulau Selakan, Semporna, Sabah

Kawasan asal

New Area (80 ha)

Integrated Complex

Drying Platform

Worker’s Quaters

Office

Working Platform

Office and working facilities

Participants (30 households)

Extension

Pulau Banggi, Kudat

1998 - 2007

Semporna

Tawau

Pulau Langkawi, Kedah

Kuching, Sarawak

Natuna Island, Indonesia

Batam, Indonesia

Langkawi

Tawau, Sabah

Sarawak Biodiversity Centre

Product Development

Pilot Plant

Bandar Sri Indah, Batu 10, Jalan Apas, Tawau, Sabah.

Produce High Value

and

Premium Products

Process Stages

43

Horizontal Retort Vertical Retort

Pasteurizer Industrial Freezer Dryer

Form-Fill-Seal Packaging Machine

Ready products to market

Energy drinks Seaweed tea

Blending powder

Instant noodle Premium salad

Ice pack

Bio-capsule

Bio-plastic Perfume gel

Collaboration

MOUs Research commitment

PPRT project Pulau Banggi, Kudat, Sabah

Data base, variety selection, nursery and

cultivation system and management..

Cultivation and management of sea settler.

Data base, variety improvement, nursery and

commercial cultivation and Mini Estate Project

Seaweed mini estate system

Biotechnology, micropropagation, variety

improvement and nursery management.

KKLW

1998 – 2008

RM1.75 mil

LKIM

2009 - 2010

RM350,000

FELDA

2009 - Present

(Value RM11 mil)

Jab. Perikanan

Malaysia

(2010 – 2012)

RM2.1 mil

NKEA Agriculture

PEMANDU

2011 – 2020

RM176 mil

Agro-Biotech Ins. 2011 (RM200,00)

Networking

Tawau, Sabah

Technology Park Malaysia

Indonesia

Recognition

Seaweed of Malaysia won 3 golds in Germany 2012

1. PM Dr Suhaimi Md Yasir – Solar dryer

2. PM Dr Charles Variappan – Anti bacteria

compound

3. Dr Patricia Matanjun – Seaweed tea

Special Award “Green Invention”

1. PM Dr Suhaimi Md Yasir - Solar Dryer (Top 10)

The Second World Competition of Green Inventions )

Thank you