Is is true that you can ride a buffalo in Langkawi? Local kids love riding the buffaloes as they wallow in the paddy field.
It's seems fun and no, I never ride a buffalo myself. I'd like to try one without the mud.
Maybe you could ride a buffalo soon as the Kedah Government is planning to introduce a buffalo rearing project and turn it into an agro-tourism product. The state had identified a 20ha plot of land in Kampung Cabang Nyior, Langkawi, for the pilot project.
The state's Veterinary Department had requested RM1.3mil from to the Federal Government, and if approved, the project would take off at the end of the year.
There are two types of buffaloes, the Murrah and Swamp, which will be bred under a cluster breeding scheme. Female Swamp buffaloes are being reared for breeding purposes while the Murrahs, which were from India, are bred for the milk.
Buffalo milk? I never taste that, have you?
Buffaloes to attract tourists
BUFFALOES may become the latest tourist attraction in Langkawi. A RM1.2mil project to rear buffaloes is planned to begin in
January. The focus will be on the production of milk, yoghurt and organic fertiliser and make this an agro-tourism attraction.
Acting Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Mahdzir Khalid told the House that the project would be carried out by the Farmers Co-operative in two phases. The first phase would be on a 20.2ha site in Kampung Nyiur Chabang where 19 buffaloes are being reared.
Mahdzir said Langkawi was a suitable location for the project because there were more buffaloes there than other districts in Kedah.
"There are 2,060 buffaloes in Langkawi now," he said.
For the second phase, the state planned to introduce a systematic rearing programme at three locations covering 40ha.
Under the second phase, he said, the state would focus on selling live buffaloes, beef, organic fertilizer, leather and also buffalo horns.
To a question on the hand, foot and mouth disease, he said the disease started spreading on Sept 11.
"But it is now under control," he said.
He said the state Veterinary Services Department had vaccinated 2,936 cows in eight districts.
The Star - November 17, 2005
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