After repeated opposition taunts over improprieties in the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) project, Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister Noh Omar challenged Pakatan Rakyat to try their hand in cattle rearing.

He said that of the 30 out of 50 completed satellite farms under the NFC are still vacant and offered Pakatan MPs a chance to prove they can do a better job.

He explained that the farms come ready made with infrastructure, grazing fields and land, all they had to do is bring in funds and the breeding stock and rear them.

The federal government set target for the NFC is to churn 600 cattle per year, per farm.

"The opposition should take one to rear cattle, let's see if they can do more than just talk... Let them operate the satellite farm and see if they can achieve that projection," he challenged.

Noh said this during his winding up speech during the Dewan Rakyat debate on the Supply Bill 2012.

Pakatan MPs have been heckling the government for days following the revelation in the Auditor-General’s Report 2010 that the NFC was way off target and blowing federal funds.

It was later revealed that the company was being run by a serving federal minister’s family members, which Pakatan said was clearly a conflict of interest and smacked of nepotism.