A farm in s'pore
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Our s'poreLocal farms produce mainly leafy vegetables and beansprouts. The leafy vegetables and beansprouts produced, amounting to $14 million in value, are wholly consumed by the domestic market. - FARM: Oh Chin Huat Hydroponic Farms:
An intro of oh's farm........ - Oh Chin Huat Hydroponic Farms Pte Ltd is one of the pioneer and most successful hydroponics farms in Singapore. Commonly called "Oh Farms", the company made forays into hydroponics business since 1991.
- Oh Farms initially started out with growing tropical vegetables. Subsequently it extended to include high-value aromatic herbs.
- Today, Oh Farms comprises 228 tropical greenhouses built on 2.4 hectares of land located within Singapore's Nee Soon Agrotechnology Parks. The company's high-technology products which include hydroponic vegetables, aromatic herbs and spices have brought significant benefits, both tangible and intangible, to the consumers.
- The vegetables produced by Oh Chin Huat Hydroponic Farms are unique in that they are pesticide-free and are grown under soil-less conditions without the use of pesticides using the Dynamic Root Floating (DRF) hydroponic technique in modular greenhouses
- Oh Farms cultivates a wide variety of pesticide-free local vegetables which include kai lan, cai xin, kang kong, bayam, xiao bai cai, lettuce, butterheads and high-value herbal plants such as sweet basil, rocket, mint, oregano, dill, fennel, Italian parsley and thyme. The farm produces 1-1.2 tonnes of vegetables a day.
- The pictures show the butterhead,basil,fennel,parsley,and oregano
--Mary HAD a little lamb--
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