Penang launches Malaysia’s first vanilla smart farm | Malay Mail

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BUKIT MERTAJAM, Aug 15 — Penang becomes the first state to launch the country’s first vanilla smart farm. Jubli Rebak Baru Sdn Bhd managing director, Ezra Tan, said the farm, managed by the company’s subsidiary Kairos Agriculture, used agriculture technology 4.0 comprising of...

This file photo taken on Oct 12, 2016 shows vanilla orchids at the greenhouse of the University of Wageningen in Bleiswijk on Oct 12, 2016. — AFP pic

“A total of 8,000 vanilla trees have been planted on a 0.8 hectares and, and the farm also apply automatic watering system which will go into action upon detecting highly hot weather or excessively dry soil. Tan said through the digital planting method, vanilla yield was estimated to worth RM1.5 million per year.

 

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