Volume 2, Issue 3 April 2013

The Official Newsletter for The Faculty of Agro Based Industry

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
page Promoting UMK Bioentrepreneurial Talk Research Methodology workshop 1&2 1&3 2 World Fish Visit National Institute of Veterinary Biodiversity Upcoming events Speakers Corner Faces in FIAT 2 4

PROMOTING UMK

Potential students filling in application forms fat UMKs booth

February, March and April are busy month for academic institution around the country. With the recent SPM and STPM result in March, UMK was not left out in promoting its program and brand name to the many eager young faces wanting to know more about

tertiary education. From government MOHE initiated Jom Masuk U, the MARA education carnival, Study Malaysia, not including the many other small education fair initiated by schools matriculation centers, and other private and government agency, Malaysia is now a buzz

with many choices to study quality education locally. Although UMK have gone through 2 convocational ceremony, little is known about UMK by quite a number of people. Some of the common question received during the education fair were UMK private university?, New

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Bio-Entrepreneurial Talk
On the 23rd of March, FIAT successfully held a Bio-Entrepreneurial talk entitled A sustainable Poultry Industry. Two successful business man in the poultry industry, Dr. Mohamad Zainol Ahmad Haja and Mr. Firdaus Mat Saad gave interesting feedback on their experience. The first talk was given by Dr. Zainol, the director of Mumtaz Meat & Marine Foods Sdn. Bhd. Dr. Zainol talked on his organic chicken, fed with organic formulation with added extract from herbs such as ginger, turmeric,

Dr. Mohamad Zainol Ahmad Haja

Advisor : Prof. Dr. Ahmad Anwar Ismail Editor : Mohd Hafiz Jamaludin

Technical : Nik Ahmad Fakruddin Nik Zulkefli Mohd Salbaharin Ismail

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The recently concluded research methodology workshop throughout March aims to prepare FYP 1 students to start research, and to help FYP 2 students to write up their studies. The series of talks and discussion covering introduction to research, doing research and

writing up research was conducted throughout March. FYP 1 student will now be well prepared to present their respective research proposal in early April. Meanwhile, FYP 2 student are currently analyzing their data and writing up a thesis draft that must be submitted

by the end of April to help them polish up their work. This will be followed by a research pr esen tation near the end of the 2nd semester. We would like to wish all FYP students and their supervisors all the best less and killing two birds with one stone requires clever, careful priority oriented planning. Branding agenda should not jeopardized quality education. Number 1 on the list must be availability of complete basic education facilities, followed by conducive learning environment , conducive teaching and working environment. These are the core priorities to promote and maintain the universitys standing. The same goes for FIAT,

in preparing for both presentation and thesis submission for examination. being 1 years old in April, creative planning in promoting itself to the wider community must be laid out. It takes great effort to carve and associate FIAT with quality education in agro based industry. It is hoped that with the development of the campus facilities, FIAT will continue to strengthen its stance and promote itself though quality education, and research excellence.

university? How old?, UMK? haven't heard before, UMK got eng i n e e r i n g / m e d i ca l c o u r s e s ? , entrepreneurial university, only business studies, right?. Sometime the questions were from people from other education institution be it private or government. Having been given the tagline Entrepreneurial University, a much more creative and entrepre-

neurial approach in branding itself is highly needed. It is a high task to promote a young university to the community, especially when it took years and years for the bigger names in tertiary education provider to be known. It is high time also UMK utilize its experts to help sell UMK. unconventional needs require unconventional approach. Tagline such as doing more with

One the 18th of March, a 4 team delegate from FIAT lead by Dr. Lee Seong Wei had a working visit at World Fish Center, Batu Maung Penang. The delegate was attended to by Dr. Michael Phillips. After a brief introduction to both institution, the

group touched primarily on research activities currently ongoing by the two institution. Although Malaysia is the headquarters for World Fish, most its research activities are done in countries outside Malaysia in Asia (such as Bangladesh and Cambodia),

From left: Dr Michael Phillips, Dr. Lee Seong Wei, and Mr Shazani Sarijan

coastal and lake areas of Africa, and the pacific islands. The current research activity by World

Fish in Malaysia is its GIFT strain Tilapia research program in Jitra, Kedah.

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pandan leaves, habatus sauda and kafir leaf. The herb extract acts as an organic source to enhance the chicken health. The second speaker, Mr. Firdaus, an ex-engineer started his life as a full time entrepreneur 7 years ago. Now at the age of 32, he not only produces thousand of birds per cycle, his experience in intensive closed poultry rearing has got other poultry entrepreneurs and also would be entrepreneurs to seek his advice on

building such closed system. Mr. Firdaus gave an almost 2 hour talk, with the first part talking on the technical aspect for an intensive poultry closed system on Mr. Firdaus Mat Saad sharing his experience the material and resources to build the barn, and on to always be focus and not be side managing the growth of a chick tracked. The organizers would like up to the time of sales. He later to thank the speaker for their time shared his ups and down in the and knowledge their shared with industry, and told the participant the UMK community. superior sires to different locations in Malaysia according to government breeding policy. The institute serves the purpose of an excellent training institute for veterinary and animal science professionals. . The group strongly feels that graduate students and researchers from FIAT can utilise the IBVK facilities. Not only that, the center can also cater to students who are planning to do industrial training in this institute.
Having a go at using the ultra sound

A group photo at IBVK

A group of 47 students of SBH2 programme led by Dr. Md. Ruhul Amin and En Mohd Hafiz Jamaludin on 28th of March, made a visit to National Institute of Veterinary Biodiversity (IBVK) and they were given an impassioned exposure to various breeding technology. The IBVK is a central institute for domestic ruminant animal biotechnology located in Jerantut, Pahang, sits on 161.4 hactares of land. IBVK purviews breeding bull selection, semen production from bull and buck, computer assisted evaluation of semen, cryopreservation of semen, estrus

synchronization by CIDR, MOET, IVF, embryo spliting, karyotyping, pregnancy diagnosis by ultrasound technique, insemination of cows and does, intra-uterine insemination in does and many other allied reproductive technologies. The institute is responsible for importing semen from abroad. Currently the institute is importing Charolais (from Canada and USA), Holstein Friesian and Brahman semen (from USA). With the availablilty of a cryobank for semen, the institute not only procure, store but also distribute cryopreserved semen from

Sperm mobility observation

Mr. Mohd Hafiz Abdul Rahman briefing the students on AI

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March 2013

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Upcoming events
Two day workshop Laboratory Workshop on Basic Analytical Chemistry Venue: Faculty of Agro Based Industry, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Jeli Campus
workshop planned for 8-9 April is postponed to a later date.

ASEAN Regional Conference on Food Security Date: 8-10 October 2013, Venue: Bayview Hotel, Penang

A series of Knowledge acculturation program was held throughout March. The series of talk was held during lunch hours was given by FIAT amazing and versatile lecturers. On the 16th of March, Dr Soon Jan Mei gave an encouraging motivational talk on how to be well prepared when face with prob-

lems with an interesting title Before I quit!. On the 19th of March, Dr Suhaimi Othaman talked on planning the for the future. Mastering the art of body language given by Mr. Mohd Mahmud @ Mansur on the 20th of March was very interesting and can be very useful in ones everyday communication at home, at work,

and at play. With university life being very hectic, what better way to end March with a talk on managing stress by Prof. S. M. Rezaul Karim. This goes to show, FIAT lecturers can very really versatile, and know more than just what is taught in lectures. Kudos to everyone who were involved in such activities!

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others

We would like to congratulate Mrs. Nurhidayah Hamzah and here husband for their beautiful baby girl who was born on the 28th of March at Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital (HUSM), Kubang Kerian. Although the baby was premature, both baby and mother are in the good of health. Everyone at FIAT pray for their quick recovery.

Mohd Shaifulazman Abd Rahim MSc (Universiti Malaysia Pahang) BSc (International Islamic University Malaysia) Research interest: Natural Product and Antioxidant

Assoc Prof. Seri Intan Mokhtar PhD (University of Manchester, UK) BSc (University of Manchester, UK) Research interest: Microbiology, Mycology