No thanks to the pandemic that made Yap’s job tougher, his list of challenges now has also grown. This includes higher power costs and keeping up with more technologically advanced systems in the urban farming space.
When Yap Kok Cheng took up the CEO role at aqua farmer Qian Hu Corporation early last year, he had a big and “colourful” pair of shoes to fill.
Kenny Yap, his predecessor and uncle by relation, had an almost larger-than-life personality and was part of the company’s founding core team together with his siblings. The elder Yap remains Qian Hu’s executive chairman.
