In 2003, Mr Ooi and I started a plan to revive the farm, but this time using truly organic and sustainable principles. This is to be our attempt to breathe a new lease of life into the dying mushroom farm.
The birth of Agro Bio-Future
The birth of Agro Bio-Future
With this partnership, we picked a suitable name for the company – “Agro Bio-Future Sdn Bhd” with a new and more exciting mission – to set up an experimental farm to develop a way to make commercial viable farming truly organic and sustainable.
No easy way out - but giving up is not an option
We think our name is very appropriate – Merging Agriculture with Biology to create a great future for us. But let me tell you this, organic and sustainable farming is a very difficult thing to achieve. I cannot even count how many times we failed and felt like giving up and spraying everything with chemicals to get the crops to grow. During the initial years, nothing seemed to work. We had to keep investing, with no end in sight. Fortunately our higher ideals and vision kept us going. I was the accountant/engineer; he was the agriculturalist/farmer. Those were difficult and heart- breaking times.
However, we persevered with our ideal that we will find the formula to grow crops in the total absence of poisonous chemicals and maintain the land such that if we ever leave, we would have left it much ecologically enriched instead of being devastated and sterile, like many commercial farms do today.
However, we persevered with our ideal that we will find the formula to grow crops in the total absence of poisonous chemicals and maintain the land such that if we ever leave, we would have left it much ecologically enriched instead of being devastated and sterile, like many commercial farms do today.
A farm where nothing goes to waste
Today, we have managed to create a farm, albeit on an experimental commercial scale that has the potential to be fully organic and sustainable. By this, we mean starting with mostly waste materials, grow highly desired produce and then re-use the resultant waste by making organic fertilizers out of them. Also, we are proving that it is possible to preserve the natural environment and eliminate the necessity to destroy trees, dig up the land and cause erosion and pollution. This is exciting and meaningful stuff.
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Of course we will have to make some profits on the way or we will not be able to carry on.
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