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Northern Corridor Economic Region
Infrastructure of NCER
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INTRODUCTION Near year 2012, about 500,000 work opportunity can create in 21 district in Kedah,
Perlis, Pulau Pinang and Utara Perak. Statistics scratch also show about 1 million job get is provided to the people in the district near 2018.
NCER were launched by Prime minister,Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on the lawn office Mada, ampang Jajar, Alor Star, Kedah Darul Aman. It is a joint effort federal government and state government concerning. among others, it objective accelerate northern peninsula regional development which involves investment as many as RM177 billion in the period 18 year from this year till 2025.
The development undertaking is also aimed at lifting one of the poorest parts of the country to world-class status by 2025.
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OBJECTIVE
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There are numbers of objectives :
-is part of the government’s commitment to helping the region maximise its economic potential and closing the deveploment and income gap between the different regions in Malaysia.
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-The Malaysian economy aims to move towards higher value add and knowledge based economic activities to drive further increases in per capita income.The NCER has the potential to make Malaysia a regional leader in a number of these sub sectors.
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Road and Bridges Road connectivity in the NCER will be enhanced via a number of projects.
Existing: North-South Expressway from Ipoh to Bukit Kayu Hitam Pulau Pinang Bridge
Planned or proposed projects: Pulau Pinang Bridge expansion Second Pulau Pinang Bridge Coastal Highway – widening existing roads and building new ones Central Spine – Straightening, widening and building new roads Butterworth-Kulim-Grik-Jeli-Kota Bahru road widening Upgrading of roads from Alor Setar to Kuala Nerang and from Kuala Nerang to Pedu Lake Upgrading of roads from Taiping to Grik Yan-Gurun highway
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Railways Long distance travel and commuter services via the railway
systems will be enhanced through several projects
Existing: Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) from Ipoh to Padang Besar
Planned or proposed projects: Double-tracking project from Ipoh to Padang Besar Pulau Pinang Monorail Two Integrated terminals in Pulau Pinang Integrated terminal in Kulim Seberang Prai Monorail from Prai-Kulim-Sungai Petani Commuter train from Ipoh to Sungai Petani Kota Bharu-Jeli-Butterworth rail link Inland commercial depot in Padang Besar
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Air and Sea Ports Strong connectivity by sea and air will be important for promoting
international trade of goods produced in the NCER. A number of improvements to existing infrastructure have been planned.
Existing airpots: Penang International Airport Langkawi International Airport Alor Setar Airport
Planned or proposed projects Expansion of Penang International Airport Expansion of regional and international air links to bring more visitors to the
NCER
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Existing sea ports: Butterworth Container Port Kuala Kedah Kuala Perlis
Langkawi
Planned or proposed projects Expansion of Butterworth Container Port Expansion of coastal vessel fleets, ferry services or tie-ups with regional
ports in Sumatera, Phuket and Myanmar
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Main crops currently cultivated in NCER are paddy, rubber, oil palm and sugar cane
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The main challenge for agriculture in NCER relates to the lack of large percels of contiguous agriculture land
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Sub-sectors of NCER
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Paddy Farming
There is significant potential to improve the productivity of the paddy sector from the current yield level of 3-5 tones per hectare to around 8 tones per hectare by
2012,
9-10 tones per hectare by 2020, if current limitations
such as poor irrigation infrastructure are addressed
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Fisheries and Aquaculture
the availability of diverse fish species and geographical advantages such as a 700km coastline and several rivers and freshwater sources.
The Ministry of Agriculture has identified 217 hectares of land in Perlis and 202 hectares of land in Ulu Lenggong, Kedah as suitable
for aquaculture activities.
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Animal Husbandry
The National Feedlot Centre in Gemas provides an opportunity to source cattle and goats for the feedlot programmed.
Agricultural waste products such as straw, plant greens and palm kernel cake can be utilized as animal feedstock
Animal husbandry will be promoted in clusters to ensure sufficient scale in the provision of slaughtering, processing and distribution facilities.
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Fruit and Vegetables
The planting of fruit, vegetables and herbs or spices will be encouraged in areas where there is idle land.
This will generate new sources of income for farmers and increase sources of export growth for Malaysia.
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Herbs, Horticulture and Premium Specialty Food Products
Perak and Pulau Pinang currently have 110 hectares dedicated to the farming of ornamental plants and flowers, and this has the potential to be enhanced, creating new employment opportunities and export markets for the country.
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Commercial Crops: Rubber and Oil Palm
Crude palm oil production is largely absorbed by the oleo chemicals and edible oil industries in Seberang Prai, and the palm oil upstream and downstream sectors in the North are mature and well established
Main rubber production includes Standard Malaysian Rubber (SMR) and latex concentrates, used primarily in the production of gloves, rubber threads, tyres and tubes.
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Positive Effect
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Moden Food Zone
Increase agriculture import
Increase the income of the people
from the bussiness
Paddy produce in better yeild
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Labour
Development of NCER, there will be lot of labour opportunity
Citezens can contribute their and power in many field such as tourism, manufacturing, transportation and etc
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Agriculture
Produce seeds, reforum production of yield and increase the facilities to improve and support the agriculture production
The productivity of the pady sector will be improve from the current three five tonners per hectare to around eight tones by 2012 and nine 10 tones by 2020
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Perlis
Bulding of an inland containe deport Seeds R & N and indegenous biotecth
centre Border town developmet to facilitate
enconomic links with neighbouring countries
Climatic fruist daster
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Kedah
High end taurism
Medical taurism will be promote, leveraging on the air connectivity to neighbouring countries like Indonesia and Thailand
Centre Spine = This will involve straightening and bulding news roads to improve transportin the region
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Halal hub in Sungai Petani which will enable high value products to be processed and manufactured for export to neighbouring countries and the middle east
Primer Industrial park on Kulim to handle manufacturing of products which can successfully compete with product from China, India and other countries in the region
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CONCLUSION
NCER or Northern Corridor Economic Region is a big project from government which is affect about 4.29 million people living in Perlis, Kedah, Penang, and north Perak. It is packed with recommendations and proposals about far-reaching and near future.
The conclusion we can summarize that NCER will gives many benefits to government, private companies, and communities in short and long term.
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Government
1) Government will get increasing income through exports of agriculture products, diversify and quality products.
2) Malaysia is known as a agricultural country. Consequently give a good reputation for Malaysia.
3) On aspect economic Malaysia can based just on agriculture to get high income.
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Private companies
1) They are will get profit interminable.
2) They are also get a good reputation because they are involved in changing communities economic status and development of physical infrastructure for communities.
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Communities
1) They are will have opportunities to work. So, they can improve their lifestyle.
2) They are also can live with comfortable within a perfect infrastructure. The example is have monorail and coastal highway.
3) Their environment will be change wisely and be a modern city.