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KOREF is uniquely
a free and easy back-to-nature health enhancing organic
lifestyle farm, with life enrichment programmes, jungle
trekking, bamboo rafting, organic meals, fruits and
vegetables, ducks, fishes, animals, premium quality
dragon fruits, community supported agriculture and more.
KOREF adapted a fully integrated agro-eco
farm with pollution free river water for irrigation
of the rice fields, fish breeding etc, sustaining the
ecological organic agriculture system. The Farm was
awarded full organic certification in December 2005
by the Malaysian Agriculture Ministry after a monitored
stringent conversion period since 2000.
KOREF is located in
Kluang district, Johor.
It is the southern-most rice farm in Peninsular Malaysia
and thereby the Asia continent. It is also the only
organic rice farm in West Malaysia, adopting the total
integration approaches of biological diversity in its
farming system. The farm has a total area of 120 hectares
and is nestled next to the Lenggor Forest Reserve,
part of he greater forest reserve of Gunong
Belumut, the highest mountain in the southern
part of Johor state. Water for the farm is channelled
by irrigation canal from the clean water of Sungei
Madek.
Biological diversity is the key component
in organic rice farming. Freshwater aquatic life abounds
here in the farm, which includes shrimps, amphibians,
molluscs, insects and more than 20 species of freshwater
fishes. Ducks and aquatic plants like the azolla are
used in abundance as part of the integrated farming
approach.
Some of the adventure and recreational
facilities include a white sand beach swimming lagoon
with water channelled in from Sungei Madek and an Asli
Water Obstacles course built totally over a man-made
pond about the size of a football field is used for
confidence and team building activities.
Other facilities include a four-room
chalet, dormitories, camping ground, floating “Asli’s
house”, swimming lagoon, canteen and multi purpose
hall.
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