Friday December 4, 2009
By ELAN PERUMAL
THE Kuala Selangor District Council is hoping to collect more than RM100,000 on licensing fee from swiftlet breeders in the district.
The council has set up a task force comprising council officials and professionals to look into ways of licensing the more than 100 breeders.
Councillor K. N. Chandran said the council was looking into the possibility of collecting RM1,000 on annual licence fee from each breeder.
By doing so, he said, the council hoped to increase its revenue as well as control the mushrooming of the breeding houses in the district.
“Currently, the breeders are carrying out the activity at freely as they are not licensed.
“The task force will liase with the state government on how to legalise the breeders,’’ he said, adding that state was now drafting regulations on breeding of swiftlets.
Under the licensing proposal, Chandran said, the task force was also supposed to identify suitable sites to move all the breeders to a centralised venue.
He added that the issue of swiftlets were hotly discussed during its full board meeting last month.
He said there had been numerous complaints from residents on the indiscriminate breeding of swiftlets at residential and commercial premises.
“Many of the councillors have expressed concerns over the mushrooming of the breeding houses in the district.
“We feel that the indiscriminate breeding is highly inconvenient for the residents and the birds may even pose a health hazard to people,’’ he added,
StarMetro had earlier highlighted the presence of numerous swiftlet houses in Kuala Selangor and Batang Berjuntai.
It reported that the breeders had conducted illegal extension of premises in order to turn them into swiftlet houses.
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