Planting seeds of sustainable farming


Visitors taking pictures of flowers growing on the leisure farm. — THOMAS YONG/The Star

Former agricultural consultant and farmer Tam Pak Swee has put his decades of knowledge and experience in rice farming to good use by opening a leisure farm in Kota Tinggi, Johor, where people can learn about nature.

A civil engineering graduate, Tam started his career in agriculture in 1992 when he looked after some 607ha of padi fields in Pahang.

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