Neither a traditional nor generational farmer, Chern Y. Loo's passion and belief in sustainable and organic-based farming meant that just over a year after beginning earthworks at Springhill Development Enterprise's first commercial-scale farm in KKP Tungku, he was already able to harvest more than 700 kilograms of produce monthly.
But his relatively high-yielding, unconventional setup, which uses no government water or electricity, has been a decade in the making.
Starting in his backyard in 2011, Chern and his family have been trialing organic-based, integrated farming systems, growing fish and plants at the same time—a method called aquaponics—while also leveraging solar power generation in a practice known as agrivoltaics.
In 2022, Springhill established its first commercial-scale farm at KKP Tungku, powered entirely by solar energy and rainwater harvesting. The farm's sustainable setup uses no petrochemical fertilizers or chemical inputs, adhering to organic-based farming principles
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