Great Giant Foods (GGF) welcomed the visit of the Mayor of Pangkalpinang at GGF Terbanggi Besar, Central Lampung. The arrival of Pangkalpinang Mayor Maulan Aklil and representatives of the Cattle and Poultry Farmers Association in Pangkalpinang City was held on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The Mayor’s delegation was received directly by the Finance, Accounting & IT Manager of PT Great Giant Livestock (GGL) Ferdy at the Training Center Building.
Before conducting a field visit to see firsthand the process of breeding and fattening cattle at PT GGL, Ferdy explained about the process of PIR Cow partnership pattern with the community. “Essentially PT GGL provides assistance, provides feed, and farmers carry out care and maintenance. At harvest, the cows will be returned to PT GGL as a market guarantor,” explained Ferdy.
Ferdy said that livestock has a very big opportunity. National meat consumption per capita is 2.57 kg per year, far below Malaysia and the Philippines which reached 8 kg, and Australia was the highest with 14 kg per year per person. The breeding business of cattle is very much affected by infrastructure.
If you learn from the problems faced by cattle breeding businesses that are integrated with oil palm in Kalimantan. that the biggest problem is transportation. So that the resulting cattle have a hampered sales process. Responding to the plan, Maulan Aklil gladly accepted that PT GGL could realize a cow partnership scheme with the community.
“We are happy to accept if there is an offer for this collaboration, the most important thing is that it does not have bureaucracy and all kinds of things that are long or complicated. The funding for Bank Sumsel-Babel is okay, everyone is ready to help through KUR and the guarantee is the mayor,” said Maulan Aklil, Mayor of Pangkalpinang, Maulan Aklil.
Said that coming to PT GGL to study, as mayor will be accountable to the community. A land of 60 hectares is ready for cooperation, if it continues there will be many other lands. Investment over the last three years in Pangkalpiang has come in at almost IDR 2 trillion.
