While casino gaming was never something he had been interested in, a chat with his mother post-graduation was enough to convince Mr Poh to enter the family business.
“I think at the very start when I first went there, I didn’t know anything or anyone in Macau, so the main thing I did was to network around. I met a lot of good people, and at the same time, obviously, you meet people that are not so good.Being new to the industry also meant that people did not take him seriously.
“But I was very wrong about how easy it was. After doing the research, I quite naively thought that I would do this for about a year and network around, meet more people and then move into landscaping. But it just took me down towards farming all the way,” he said.Just like when he started out in Macau, Mr Poh had “zero knowledge” of the agriculture sector, and people also did not take him seriously when he started.
“When I was building the farm, I was there from 9am to 10pm. I’d only eat one meal a day during the building, because I didn’t want to waste time. So I would only eat one really huge brunch and then just work the entire day in the farm,” he said. “I can look at other people’s systems, I can derive how it’s built, how it’s done, and that experience isn’t something you can get from reading books or watching tutorials online,” he said.Even with his extensive research, his lack of science and engineering knowledge posed challenges for him.
“And we’re quite proud of what we’ve done with this current farm. We’ve had people from the industry – from the US, Europe – coming to visit us and they were quite impressed with the farm we’ve built. They told that it was comparable to some of the more advanced overseas farms as well.In the short-term, Artisan Green hopes to scale up its production from its current 30kg to 250kg of vegetables per week.
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