Corporate Profile
Singapore AgriTech Pte Ltd (SGAT)
is an international farm management, agriculture research and development company. We apply proven innovation and technology to help farmers and land owners in Mozambique, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia to produce more while increase their net returns. We help farmers or corporates that venture into the upstream in farming to implements sustainable and healthy foods, while making our world green.
SGAT farm management as considered here is a professional discipline which relates to the description, construction, analysis and evaluation of farm systems and commercial aspect of the planting cycle. We combined our farm management expertise directly toward our intimate knowledge of the seed varieties that we manage.
Dramatic changes are taking place in farming worldwide as a result of globalization, liberalization, and rapid urbanization. Land owners and farmers are intensifying existing patterns of production and diversifying their farm enterprises in an attempt to improve their livelihoods. Technical know-how is not enough. In order to be competitive and take advantage of the new opportunities that are arising farmers increasingly have to adapt their farm business small or big, to market changes and improve efficiency, profitability and income.
As more and more corporate and commercial businesses are going upstream into farming or the source of the commodities, we support them in evaluating, defining and implementing professional farm management assessment and deployments plan with appropriate crops and farm management requirements.
The desire to increase income by taking advantage of market opportunities and ensure a stable productivity requires farmers or land owners to become better decision makers and better at competing in this new environment. The emphasis on the market and the need of farmers to be competitive, calls for better farm management skills. Marketing and farm management have rapidly gained predominance globally over the last two decades. Farm business management skills and knowledge is recognized as important for farmers and land owners to effectively respond to present day farming challenges. Farm management advice helps farmers and land owners to make the right choice between crop enterprises according to levels of financial, labor and land endowments and at the appropriate level of risk adversity.
Advisory Board
Willy Berlian Liang – Chairman of the Advisory Board
Management Team
Louis Kek – Chief Executive Officer
Kian Peng Yeo – Head, Corporate Strategy & Investment Relations
Tomoya Shitara, PhD – Head, Research and Technology
DingKun Zhao – Rice Varieties Specialist
