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According to him, pests are virile and can mutate and build immunity towards the chemicals, so he surmises that that’s why his neighbour has resorted to stronger formulas. I never used to smell it so much but I think they’re using a more potent pesticide now,” says Yahqappu. When I could smell the pesticides, I wasn’t happy at all. “I thought the neighbouring jasmine farm would help, pollination and all that. He had initially thought that being close to a flower plantation would help him as the birds and bees it draws would contribute to the biodynamics of his farm. Right now, his biggest concern is a jasmine plantation nearby.

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This was six years ago - and he plunged himself right into the deep end, reading books and stuff off the Internet to learn how to establish his own farm. Inspired, he returned to Malaysia and found himself a plot in Batu Arang, Selangor, a lowland plot measuring 1.5 acres.

He found it at an ashram in Bangalore where the ashram had its own organic farm. Putting up the restaurant for lease after six years of operations, Yahqappu went to India for six months, spending time in the Catholic ashrams to “understand more about life and where I should be heading to”. That’s why I got into the restaurant business, but that’s when I discovered it was not low enough,” he says. “It is people who give meaning to life and that is why I decided to find something to do that was at the base of the social strata. Taking up farming was a vocation for Yahqappu who previously was an ordained minister with the Ministry of Christ church and after that, a restaurateur. He was on a search for the meaning of life when he finally found his calling.

Yahqappu found meaning for his life through organic farming.

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