Malaysian firm explores ways to help PH poultry sector

Malaysian building materials provider Astino Agro-House Multi System Sdn. Bhd is exploring opportunities to modernize the infrastructure supporting the local poultry industry.

“Malaysian companies [can] help farmers increase their productivity and most importantly, become more profitable,” said Nyaee Ayup, commissioner of the Embassy of Malaysia Trade Office (Matrade) Manila in a statement.

Astino, which has poultry house projects in Luzon, was one of the Malaysian companies that participated in the Livestock Philippines 2015 held late last month.

Astino sales manager Mex Tay was quoted in the statement as saying that the company was offering a state-of-the-art system that can ensure high product quality and reliability, cost effectiveness, easy maintenance and safe sanitary conditions.

The company can build poultry houses, swine houses, and warehouses that can withstand typhoons and the effects of the climate change.

A state-of-the-art poultry house by Astino, for instance, can last about 20 years; withstand 250 kilometers per hour winds; and decrease mortality rate, which leads to more income and fast return of investment.

“We see farmers shifting to advanced economical and environmental friendly solution infrastructure from the traditional poultry house. The mortality rate of chickens will be decreased by 5 percent if they shift to our prefab houses. We can keep and manage the temperature because the inside and out of the house is insulated,” Tay said. “We can tailor-made houses for customers. We call them generation houses, because these are long lasting.”

The company said it was completing projects in Luzon and that similar facilities were being rolled out in Cagayan de Oro and General Santos.