Sustainable Peatland
Agriculture

Pulau Burung’s suboptimal land is the overlap of flatland, lowland, wetland, and peatland. In managing land with peat characteristics, water management becomes the most important aspect of ensuring sustainability.

In his days, our founder worked on a water management system to address the challenge of suboptimal land. The soil is highly porous, which allows too much water seepage and excessive evaporation, which become more serious during the dry seasons. The Water anagement Trinity (WMT) was then established for capturing and keeping freshwater as a resource instead of letting it leave back to the ocean.

The WMT comprises of three main components (i.e. the Canals, the Dams and Water Gates, and the Dikes) which supports the three aspects of sustainability. It is still being used until now and has been acknowledged as first of its kind in the world.