Texchem Resources Bhd (TRB), which claims to be the world's largest soft shell crab exporter, plans to depend less on wild-caught crabs and rear more of its own as it seeks to boost its aquaculture business. It has joined forces with Penang-based University Sains Malaysia (USM) to expand its local in-house hatchery expertise.
TRB yesterday signed a two-year memorandum of agreement with USM to jointly study and do pilot-scale trials at the university's Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies in Muka Head, Penang. Texchem also contributed RM200,000 (US$ 65,541) yesterday towards the centre for the pilot project. "We may invest a further RM500,000 (US$ 163,853) as we work towards commercialising this project," chairman and chief executive officer Tan Sri Fumihiko Konishi told Business Times in Penang after the signing ceremony.
Present at the event at USM's main campus in Minden were its vice-chancellor Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and Texchem Food Sdn Bhd president and chief executive officer Brian Tan. Texchem Food supplies some 100 tonnes of crabs a month. It has seafood processing facilities in Malaysia and also Myanmar. "For the past 12 months," Konishi said, "Texchem Food Sdn Bhd has conducted laboratory-scale trials and experiments in the hatchery process of the Mud Crab. Read more...
This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.
TRB yesterday signed a two-year memorandum of agreement with USM to jointly study and do pilot-scale trials at the university's Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies in Muka Head, Penang. Texchem also contributed RM200,000 (US$ 65,541) yesterday towards the centre for the pilot project. "We may invest a further RM500,000 (US$ 163,853) as we work towards commercialising this project," chairman and chief executive officer Tan Sri Fumihiko Konishi told Business Times in Penang after the signing ceremony.
Present at the event at USM's main campus in Minden were its vice-chancellor Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and Texchem Food Sdn Bhd president and chief executive officer Brian Tan. Texchem Food supplies some 100 tonnes of crabs a month. It has seafood processing facilities in Malaysia and also Myanmar. "For the past 12 months," Konishi said, "Texchem Food Sdn Bhd has conducted laboratory-scale trials and experiments in the hatchery process of the Mud Crab. Read more...
This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.
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