The Star Online, Monday 17 July 2006

Execs come up with bio-organic fertiliser

By NIK NAIZI HUSIN

According to Shamsul Anuar, who is the East-World Multi-Super Corridor Incubator Centre chief executive officer, the fertiliser that he and Maseri, who is Ibra Resources Sdn, Bhd research executive officer, produced was suitable for growing vegetables such as long beans, ladies fingers and chillies in a shorter period.

Shamsul Anuar said the ladies fingers and chillies he planted in his compound had grown bigger than usual.

He said the fertilizer could be used commercially for other crops including herbs such as mas contek and tongkat ali and flowers too.

“It is free from poisonous chemicals and can be used for fish rearing in aquariums. I have tested and proven that the fishes look active and grow bigger in size and are healthier,” he said when met at his house in Kampong Kempadang near here recently.

Shamsul Anuar said it took him and Maseri four years to conduct the research and produce the fertiliser.

“We have found a soil bacteria known as actinomyces which is suitable in agriculture and drove us to produce our fertiliser which we named “fresh bio-organic”.

“It is a combination of oil-palm trees fibre, chicken waste and actinomyces bacteria,” he said.

Shamsul Anuar said he had tested the fertiliser in the house of Pahang Deputy Menteri Besar Datuk Mohd Tan Aminuddin Ishak.

“It has proven good yields despite it being our only test plot,” he said, adding that the fertiliser tried at a vegetable farm in Pekan under the supervision of the Mardi had proven excellent.

He said if the fertilizer was used in palm-oil estates, planters could save between 40% and 50% of funds for fertiliser while yield would increase 60% to 70% depending on the size of land.