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CHUAH JIUNN HARNG Reviving the Soil and Recreating Lives Chuah Jiunn Harng, fondly called Jake, developed the dream of being an organic farmer while studying biotechnology at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. During his internship at another university, part of his job was to assist Masters students in researching genetically modified foods. These students were working on ways to increase the...

HUD SULAIMAN Integrated Farming is the Answer to Food Safety and Sovereignty Hud Sulaiman, as Managing Director of the Malaysian Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (MISA), has been conducting a variety of environmental and agroecological activities for the past 10 years. The objective of the organisation is to promote sustainable agriculture through education, science and welfare. In the...

CHEAH SIN CHOR Farming is All about Prospering and Sharing The verdant forest dotted with a variety of tropical trees at Kampung Mata Air, Pulai Chondong, Machang, Kelantan, stands tall and confident purely for the reason that its proud owner, Cheah Sin Chor, had promised its inhabitants that he would not in any manner intrude into their lives. “Agriculture is not mere planting, harvesting,...

KUMARASAMY THANNIMALAI A Lecturer that Farms to Cater to the Needs of the Local Community Kumarasamy Thannimalai is a successful farmer despite his busy schedule as a lecturer at IPG. His unquenchable thirst for farming made him keep learning all the nuances of growing and caring for plants. In 1993, he started farming on 25,000 square feet of land adjacent to his house at Taman Kangkung, Lunas,...

NURFITRI AMIR MUHAMMAD Seeds are Farmers' Property Fitri Amir, a microbiology graduate from Universiti Sains Malaysia, has previously worked as a virologist at the Veterinary Research Institute and 2 research centres in socioeconomic research. He was also a project leader for the community development project of Al-Bukhari International University and, during his early years after graduation,...