The idea of growing plants on rooftops is not new but with the our technology, unlike most rooftop projects, we go beyond growing conventional hardy ornamental plants. We have created a highly productive food wonderland on top of the IRIS building producing an assortment of fruits and vegetables.
We have intergrated fish culture as part of the food production facility - a truly complete Urban Aquaponic Farm in the middle of Kuala Lumpur. In six months, the rooftop, once bare is now completely filled with hundreds of bearing tomato plants, hundreds of melon plants with top quality fruits without blemishes, cucumber plants bearing heavily, miracle fruit trees, rice plants, hundreds of flowering plants (petunia, begonia, orchids etc), 10,000 high value table fish (Jade Perch, Kelah Merah & Hijau, Patin, Tilapia, Guppies as fish feed) cultured in large tanks (total capacity 200,000 litres).
What is even more amazing about this rooftop R&D Project is that water is being used many times over. The high value fish gets the first use of the water, next is lower value fish (eg. Tilapia) followed by the feeder fish (Guppies, mollies etc) and sandworms before finally being fed to the plants. Due to the space constraint on the rooftop for growing plants, we can only minimize the wastage of water. Otherwise, we should be able to fully utilise all the water discharged from the fish culture tanks without any wastage.
