Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) has organized the Sedili Kota Tinggi Madani Community Carnival to highlight its role as a university that conducts research activities to help improve the local communities’ quality of life.

The carnival was also intended to highlight UMT as a university that is willing to help the communities, especially the Sedili community, meet their needs by contributing its expertise and implementing knowledge transfer programmes involving its students.

The university continues to share its expertise in specific niche areas, especially fisheries, to the Sedili community who mostly rely on fisheries for income. This is in line with UMT’s commitment in ensuring  its plans are translated into actions.

UMT through its Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP), a Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), has conducted studies on fisheries in the area to address the socio-economic needs of the Sedili community, and has released seeds of mud crabs, flower crabs, and sea bass in conjunction with the carnival.

The Seed Release Programme involved three universities, namely Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), and was carried out to support the country’s fisheries resource sustainaibility.

UMT, as a main university in the field of marine science and aquatic resources, has an important role in the sharing of transferring of technology to the local community through teaching and learning, research, and other activities to ensure the sustainability of resources can be maintained in the future.

At the same time, UMT will also introduce other fields that can improve the socio-economic status of the Sedili community. These include the Stingless Bee Project, the Oyster Mushroom Farming Project, and DIY Soap Project. These planned programmes will be carried out through impactful knowledge transfer programmmes backed by fund from the Ministry of Higher Education totalling RM108,300.00.

This university-for-society project focused on the Sedili community especially the youths, housewives, single mothers, army veterans, fishermen, and the underpreviliged.

Training on entrepreneurship and other skills and business support programme were implemented so that the participants can ensure the projects involved are sustainable.

In conjunction with the Sedili Madani Community Carnival Programme, 100 UMT students organized a clean-up activity and a knowledge transfer activity with the community around Sedili. UMT also distributed post-flood aid kits to 100 recipients. 

The programme was also UMT’s contribution to the local community to help the B40 group increase their income, which mostly comes from fisheries activities.

The seed release project is expected to increase the population stock and ensure sustainable management of fisheries resources at certain areas in Kota Tinggi district.

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Universiti Malaysia Terengganu