The 1st Biotech Farm in Malaysia

ar-Raudhah Biotech Farm is Malaysia's first and only stud breeder whose farming approaches utilize a high degree of biotechnology to maximize yields and to ensure that its products are of the highest genetic and breed quality. Its major business activities include:

• The production and commercialization of live animals which are bred
• using biotechnology and assisted reproduction technologies.
• The production and commercialization of frozen semen and embryos.
• Artificial insemination
• Embryo transfer services.
• Production and commercialization of organic fertilizer derived from animal waste as a by product.

The company utilizes biotechnology approaches in several of its farming and breeding procedures among which the more significant are:

• Semen collection and evaluation
• Semen cryopreservation
• Oestrous synchronization
• Artificial insemination
• Pregnancy diagnosis
• Superovulation
• Embryo recovery and transfer
• Embryo cryopreservation

Embryo Recovery and Transfer

Embryo Recovery and Transfer is a powerful, efficient and economical way of rapidly increasing numbers and ensuring the quality of the parent stock. At ar-Raudhah Biotech, we deploy biotechnology approaches in these two critical procedures to ensure that quality genetics are successfully reproduced in the ar-Raudhah livestock bloodline.

Research and Development

Another key activity that significantly augments the Farm's breeding activities is Research and Development. The R&D activities of ar-Raudhah Biotech Farm, headed by Malaysia's renowned Professor in animal husbandry and reproduction, Dr. Abd. Wahid Haron from Universiti Putra Malaysia, look into the improvement of technologies applied in the production of Boer buck semen and embryos. These include protocols for buck semen freezing, embryo freezing and embryo transfer.

ar-Raudhah Biotech's R&D activities are carried out within ar-Raudhah Biotech Farm itself in its animal biotechnology laboratory. R&D at ar-Raudhah Biotech focuses on the areas of:

• Artificial Insemination (AI): to improve superovulation and AI techniques and procedures
• Embryo Transfer (ET): to improve embryo recovery and grading techniques and embryo transfer techniques; and,
• Semen and Embryo: evaluation, grading and packaging to improve semen collection and evaluation techniques; and to improve semen cryopreservation procedures.