While we are primarily a food manufacturing company, our horticulture seedling production and Farmers Learning Centre activities are central to our corporate sector building responsibility to the nation. They play a key role in building and strengthening the value chains within the industry, fostering relationships with the local farming community, and ensuring a consistent supply of quality inputs.
Comprehensive Horticulture National Production Guide: From Farm to Fork
Horticulture plays a foundational role in shaping national food security, regenerating ecosystems, reversing weather extremes, and building an inclusive, high-value agricultural economy. Yet, for the industry to realize its full potential, systemic alignment is needed—from how demand is tracked to how farmers access inputs, markets, and fair pricing.
The demand for nutrients required by horticultural crops is significantly higher than other forms of agricultural outputs. Despite the sandy and degraded soil conditions often encountered on our lands, current knowledge and technology exist to regenerate these environments and restore the conditions that horticultural plants need to thrive.
These capabilities—our knowledge and technology—must be placed at the forefront, rather than subordinated to the immediate demand for financial returns. High returns naturally follow when there is high-level, consistent attention to the application of regenerative inputs.
This guide outlines a ten-part national framework that enables stakeholders to build a thriving horticulture sector. It begins by placing market demand at the centre of production planning, followed by strategic land use and crop choices that restore climatic balance. It then addresses the restoration of soils and ecosystems, provision of essential inputs and infrastructure, and farmer extension systems. The guide further includes the establishment of handling and processing centres, fair market regulation, and transparent pricing oversight.
Lastly, it introduces the tools and systems needed for financial risk management and continuous performance evaluation. Together, these ten coordinated levers offer a clear national roadmap for scaling up horticulture production—profitably, regeneratively, and systemically.
The MFK-Gardens Centre plays a distinct role within the horticulture value chain by focusing on two critical areas: skills development for the restoration of soils and ecosystems for horticulture farmers in particular, and the provision of high-quality horticultural seedlings cultivated without the use of chemical inputs. Through these efforts, the Centre supports regenerative farming practices that lay a strong foundation for sustainable and nutrient-rich crop production across the country.
In addition, through The Culinary Studio MFK, we create an environment where individuals can discover the joy of tasting and preparing food, while expanding their palate through the creative use of spices, herbs, vegetables and fruits, to complement traditional starch and meat-based dishes. In this way, the fork reinforces and widens the work of our local farms.
Click here for more details of the guide.
The demand for nutrients required by horticultural crops is significantly higher than other forms of agricultural outputs. Despite the sandy and degraded soil conditions often encountered on our lands, current knowledge and technology exist to regenerate these environments and restore the conditions that horticultural plants need to thrive.
These capabilities—our knowledge and technology—must be placed at the forefront, rather than subordinated to the immediate demand for financial returns. High returns naturally follow when there is high-level, consistent attention to the application of regenerative inputs.
This guide outlines a ten-part national framework that enables stakeholders to build a thriving horticulture sector. It begins by placing market demand at the centre of production planning, followed by strategic land use and crop choices that restore climatic balance. It then addresses the restoration of soils and ecosystems, provision of essential inputs and infrastructure, and farmer extension systems. The guide further includes the establishment of handling and processing centres, fair market regulation, and transparent pricing oversight.
Lastly, it introduces the tools and systems needed for financial risk management and continuous performance evaluation. Together, these ten coordinated levers offer a clear national roadmap for scaling up horticulture production—profitably, regeneratively, and systemically.
The MFK-Gardens Centre plays a distinct role within the horticulture value chain by focusing on two critical areas: skills development for the restoration of soils and ecosystems for horticulture farmers in particular, and the provision of high-quality horticultural seedlings cultivated without the use of chemical inputs. Through these efforts, the Centre supports regenerative farming practices that lay a strong foundation for sustainable and nutrient-rich crop production across the country.
In addition, through The Culinary Studio MFK, we create an environment where individuals can discover the joy of tasting and preparing food, while expanding their palate through the creative use of spices, herbs, vegetables and fruits, to complement traditional starch and meat-based dishes. In this way, the fork reinforces and widens the work of our local farms.
Click here for more details of the guide.