Jakarta, 11 April 2022 – PT. Widodo Makmur Perkasa ("Company" or "WMPP"), is a Company engaged in Consumer Goods and Agricultural Commodities that is holistically integrated with five business lines, namely Livestock, Meat Processing, Poultry, Commodity, and Construction & Energy. Meanwhile, the Livestock Embryo Center (BET) is one of the Technical Implementation Units under the Directorate General of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia.
On this day, the two officially carried out the signing of the Application of Embryo Transfer Technology in Cows, in this Cooperation several points were collaborated, among others, Training to HUMAN RESOURCES from WMPP by the team from BET both at the BET training site and at the WMPP cage location, in addition there will be Assistance and coaching by the BET Cipelang team, then the technical application of joint embryo transfer starting from embryo preparation to the application level. And this cooperation is arranged technically will be carried out between BET and a subsidiary of WMPP engaged in livestock, namely PT Pasir Tengah.
"This collaboration is a manifestation of WMPP's commitment to continue to develop the highest quality of beef products, but still at an affordable price for the wider community. With this cooperation, it is also hoped that WMPP can contribute to the country's food security, with the development of locally born cows is expected to reduce the dependence of the homeland market on imported cows." Said WMPP CEO, Tumiyono.
In addition , Heri Prasojo, CEO of PT Pasir Tengah, added, "As a Company that currently focuses on feedlotting cattle or fattening cattle. We are always open to innovations that allow us to develop variants of our products. We very much welcome this collaboration with BET because for the Company, we will get knowledge transfer related to cow development and on the BET side can utilize our integrated cattle farming infrastructure in conducting research and development, which does not rule out the possibility in the future to produce new cow variants to meet the needs of animal protein, especially quality and affordable beef for the People of Indonesia.
"In addition, this collaboration also has the opportunity to bring added value and complement various other programs that the Company has in the field of development and empowerment such as breeding programs that we have pioneered to develop various new superior cow variants, partnership programs and cow independent villages that focus on empowering communities and communities in the development and livestock of cattle, as well as special genetic programs that focus on developing varieties – new cow varieties that suit the needs of the People of Indonesia." Add Heri.