Farmer Praba set up this lab some time back to feed his growing interest in the field of agriculture.The laboratory offers the following services:
the micropropagation of fruit trees, ornamentals and medicinal plants.
Consultation service for setting up Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory.
Training of tissue culture skills to laboratory personnels and plant growers.
Custom multiplication of tissue culture plants or contract propagation of new plant varieties.
Custom research and development for interested organization and consultancy for mass propagation and plant cell culture facilities.
Contract development of plant tissue culture media.
Don't ask me why they call it so!.. but that is what I was told by the local supplier in Mantin.
The flesh of this jack fruit is very sweet. Farmer Praba can be contacted if you need to place an order.
Farmer Praba built this wonderful toilets and shower cubical in June 2009. I don't think you are going to get any thing better then this in Mantin town. Only one rule "Keep It Clean ... or use the drain across the road".
Vitato is also grown on the farm. If you are wondering what is vitato well it is a nutritious sweet potato with loads of vitamins.
From the chicken egg incubator, Farmer Praba is able to have his own Ayam Kampung and is not dependent on buying young chicks.
Farmer Praba is currently working on a new project to bread Catfish (Ikan Keli) and Tilapia.
The Farm has its own Egg hatching Incubator, making it self sufficient.
This is the shed which houses the production of Vermicompost.
Farmer Praba's Geese. They roam the farm in packs and can be un-friendly to strangers.
6 months old Jatropha plant, about 2 to 3 feet tall are being sold here. You can contact Farmer Praba for more information.
Vanilla Plant transferred into poly-bags after more then a month in the tissue culture lab.
Pisang Berangan in poly-bags, about a month old. This banana plant was grown via tissue culture. It would normally take the plant to grow an inch tall from tissue culture stage before it is transferred into poly-bags.
This is a shed for cultivation of young seedlings namely Jetropha, banana shoots, vanilla and etc. This also where Farmer Praba experiments on various kinds of mushrooms.
Temporary workers quarters under construction, to be completed by end July 2009. Oh yes and that is him the Farmer him self.
The farm is located along the main road into Mantin Town, you just can't miss the blue container when you drive into town. The banner reads "Harga Rendah - Jual Pokok Jarak Pagar dan Kompos Cacing (Low Price - Jatropha Seedlings and Vermicompost)".