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Agriculture is a $2.4 trillion industry worldwide! In Malaysia, it contributes to around 9% of GDP, which is worth around RM 100 billion, employing close to 900,000 thousand people!

Despite the enormity & importance, the industry is facing some serious concerns: reducing farmland productivity & increasing populations to feed, ageing farmers, extensive use of chemicals which are disrupting the environment & human health, as well as uncertainties related to global warming.

At Seribu-Bio Systems, we are trying to reimagine farming to tackle current inefficiencies & drive the industry to the future with the use of advanced science & natural and organic farming principles.

ABOUT SERIBU-BIO SYSTEMS SDN. BHD.

 

We are a multi-skilled group of people, as per our name “Satu Ribu” Bio Systems, where we believe with our synergy we are able to deliver the thousands of “skills and technology” that are needed in the agricultural industry. Established in 1973, we started as sub-level contractors/suppliers and currently have grown to be a full-fledged turnkey solution provider for numerous Bio-Tech farms, aquaculture, natural turfed fields, lakes, stadiums to superstructures, etc. We have also contributed to vast segment of horticultural development projects in Malaysia, India and Myanmar, and have collaborative MOU’s signed with numerous Indian Universities for technology exchange and innovative solutions support.

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OUR GALLERY

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Globally, harnessing soils microbes is being recognized as a critical approach to sustainably increase farm productivity, especially when considering the need to more than double the productivity by 2050 to meet the demand of growing population. In line with this, microbes based agricultural input industry is a rapidly growing industry, which is anticipated to be worth around hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide in the future. In Asia, India, China, Taiwan and Korea are leading the way in implementing microbes based agricultural practices. Seribu-Bio Systems has done research and development in microbes development suited to our local soil conditions.



Microbes production and usage is able to address one of the key drawbacks in current agricultural practices, which is the lack of understanding on soil microbial activities, resulting in degraded soil physically, biologically and chemically over long term. It is a well-known fact that agricultural yields are declining globally over time due to adverse soil conditions due to continuous use of chemical-based fertilizers. If this trend continues, soil condition will face irreversible damage, resulting in man-made desertification around the worlds farmlands. Only around 50% of fertilizers actually go to the plant, the remaining is usually drained away by surface run-off to the waterways, polluting them in the process. Worldwide, close to 100 million tons of nitrogen are wasted every year in this way, resulting in excessive nutrient pollution in large lakes and oceans, creating “dead zones” that kills marine life. In 2017, the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” alone stretched to an area of 8,776 square miles, which signifies the huge environmental hazard being created by the use of these chemical-based fertilizers.

This is where soil microbes come to the rescue, as an ideal replacement for nitrogen-based fertilizers, by letting the microbes play the role of “manufacturing” the wholesome nutrients needed by the plant. Naturally, many types of soil microbes “fix” nitrogen by sucking the nitrogen gas from atmosphere, which plants cannot directly use, and converting it into bioavailable form of nutrient for the plants to absorb through their root. However, the widespread use of man-made fertilizer over the last century has reduced these microbes’ functions, which also play other critical roles in conditioning the soil, such as maintaining the soil structure, organic matter replacement, and other soil characteristics. With microbes’ rich soil, plants yield is increased, along with the quality of the produce.

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The key types of soil microbes are bacteria, Actinomycetes, Fungi, Protozoa, and Nematodes. Each of them plays a critical and unique role in boosting soil health. In fertile soil, there may be hundreds of billions of microbes in a single gram of soil. Some of their key functions within the soil ecosystem are as below:

  • Break down organic matters, cycling nutrients to provide Nitrogen and other essential nutrients, which acts as comprehensive and wholesome food for the plants.
  • Act as natural insecticide/biocontrol agent to suppress parasitic organisms, which reduces dependency on chemical-based pesticides and fungicides.
  • Produce output that stimulate plant growth, which can act as natural replacement for artificial plant growth hormones.
  • Condition the soil to provide healthy soil structure, holding them together to prevent loss of nutrients when exposed to water.
  • Detoxify harmful chemicals existing in the soil

LABORATORY FACILITY

In the area of product analysis, we are the unparalleled global provider of such services. We bring the same principles, procedures and quality management procedures to contract lab operation that we do to our commercial laboratories, thus ensuring you of timely analytical services you can trust. Our laboratory provides the fast turnaround, accurate, reliable analytical data that you need to effectively run and optimize your project operations. We are able to combine sampling and analytical services for:


  • Grade control
  • Plant control
  • Environmental materials (water, soil, tailings etc)
  • Regional or site exploration support
  • Production forecasting
  • Commercial support (ie concentrate or cathode analysis)
  • Particle size analysis
  • Bench scale metallurgical test support for plant services
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