Hamad has a 21-year lease on a 4ha land where he has planted 800 jackfruit trees.
SEVEN years ago, when Mohd Noorhardy Mohd Noorzain’s restaurant and car rental business went bust, the Universiti Putra Malaysia graduate took up selling MD2 pineapples, touted to be the sweetest variety.
He borrowed his father’s one-tonne lorry and along with his wife, Noorhardy opened a stall at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) selling the fruit whole, cut or juiced.
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Hamad has a 21-year lease on a 4ha land where he has planted 800 jackfruit trees.
The Batu Arang Permanent Food Park in Gombak, Rawang in Selangor, is a gazetted agricultural land where farmers can rent plots.
Noorhardy’s pineapple farm in Kampung Sungai Merab Luar, Sepang in Selangor, is also popular for agrotourism. – Photos: LOW BOON TAT/The Star
Amurthalingham at his farm at Ladang Sungai Gumut in Kalumpang, Hulu Selangor, with some of the 10 cows he received through a subsidy programme.
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