Brunei’s Shrimp Export May Lead To Centre Of Excellence

Bandar Seri Begawan – Exporting rostris shrimp is eyed to be a means for Brunei to realise its vision to become a centre of excellence.

Awang Haji Mohd Usop Bin Haji Abdul Razak Sidi, manager of the Semaun Prim Sendirian Berhad, made this observation.

He said the exporting of the rostris shrimp needs to go through various processes to ensure its survival rate and quality when it reaches its destination, particularly for a long journey flight.

The first export trial to Fiji in December last year with 300,000 shrimps was a success.

Apart from the quality, the packaging and delivery will determine the survival rate of the shrimp.

For the, trial delivery, 95 per cent of survival rate was recorded during the 24-hour journey.

Then on January 8, 2004, 50,000 shrimps were exported to Taipei and recorded another success of 100 per cent survival rate.

With the success, the Gulf Seafood Fiji limited was confident with the quality of shrimps produced in Brunei and made another booking for 300,000 pieces for today's delivery.

With the capability too, Brunei’s rostris will become one of the country's main export commodities apart from the market size shrimps, which have increased its export value from zero point $705 million in 2000 to 1.47 million dollars in 2002 for the export markets such as the United States, Japan and others.

The success of the rostris shrimp production since 2000 is followed by the commercial verification of the rostris shrimp product at the Meragang Hatchery Centre.

With the success, the technology transfer and thorough coordination of the centre were taken over by the Seiwa Corporation Sendirian Berhad, a subsidiary of the Semaun Holdings Sendirian Berhad.

Now the capacity of the shrimp production has reached up to 10 million a month. However, the current demand only needs five to six million.

Every month, an opportunity to explore the export market is open wide as soon as the local demand is fulfilled. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei 

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