What should I do with it, situated in Kampung Gajah, Perak. Quite isolated. what should be done to develop it.

kg gajah in which daerah? batu gajah? get hold of the D.O office... or the state agriculture for advice... maybe can plant some fruit trees or ternak lembu... get advice... depence on the soil structure...

kg gajah is 30km south of batu gajah....near pasir salak. I'm living in Penang now. quite far to travel so often.have some palm oil on it but gotta replant in a couple of years time. dunno what else to do to make it mode benificial.

What do people surrounding your area do? What type of planting they do?
Are planning to get workers to do plantation? (if you do plantation)

I'm planning to continue with palm oil, but now somebody from teluk intan is managing it and I got lil money for that but what to do, i'm living far away and i got some other things to do...surrounding people are doing plantations and fisheries (fresh water).

If you could do similar activities like people surrounding doing, then i get you wont have the problem of finding workers.
Even in any business i guess, you need a trustworty type of person running your business. (since you are at penang)

Yeah sure, trust is exactly my problem. any idea how to make it more benificial than palm oil?

Bro, its the right time now if u go to MAHA 2006 @ Mardi (next to UPM Malaysia). Till this weekend if not mistaken.
Besides that, go for maintenance free concept of farming i.e. (talking about 1-2 acres) covered up the whole area like Bird park did, plant fruits trees and release meat rabbits, turkey, ayam kampung etc of high demand. It will works like a chain, if u get what I mean. For the rest of the land, can plant a tree that have high commercial export value, unlike Jati, this tree mature in short period of time; can't remember the tree name, need to ask my dad. There was an article in newspaper about the commercialize effort of the wood sometime back this year.
About funding, approach Bank Pertanian. They have mandated role (as well as commercial) to give out loans. Take note that repayment does not necessarily be right after disbursement, it can be delayed for a year or 2 based what your project is.

A nice method up there, dscythe, enlighten by it.

Since you mentioned that there are people doing plantations nearby, you can try to source manpower from there. Like ask any of the plantation keepers who willing to take care of your baby oil palms, they will be willing to do so for some extra bucks, sort of like part time for them. The bumis should be pretty trustworthy, unlike city people.

And since you got somebody there to take care things for you, you can always plant a few more crops while waiting your baby palms to grow up. This you can make more profit.

But seriously, 12 acres land for palm oil plantation is a bit too small. Maybe you can consider dscythe suggestion. Or I hv seen some oil palm estates also rearing cow or goats in there, as long as you fence the whole place up and have a barn for those goat to rest during rain or night.

But make sure the boss should at least be there once every month. Only youself can make sure one business is running smoothly.

This post has been edited by rexis: Nov 21 2006, 06:19 PM

if i were u mann wooooottt 12 acre i ternak lembuuu masyukkkk.............................i berenti kerja then ternak lembu fulltime,if u ternak lembu in "FARM" way u'll get 90% back of profit coz u only need cash for electric wire n hire some villagers to look out for da cows,wish i had that much of land u are lucky dude........

thanx for all your infos, i'm 24/m/penang....still immature to point out any concrete suggestion even to myself.

Not everyone can simply leave the city and stay in kampung just like that. Theres simply too much to see in city for you to let go.

Perhaps you can share more insights about your cow farm? Hey, really so profitable?

yeah, it's a very very good income...a good management can get 5digits net profit per week, but the problem is like you said.....stay in kampung....I'm stuck in the middle right now brother

Talking about cows, 5 cows died by lightning strike while sheltered under a palm tree (yesterday's newspaper) , I wonder how much loss the owner has to bear for 5 adult cows

Offer to rent it to the Gov to be used as a NS training ground!

if near water source, can try fish breeding...

or even consider bull-frog breading...

anymore suggestion?????

What bout opening a grand cemetry as of the nirvana park.Or maybe you could set up fishing ponds for commercialize fishing industry.Or maybe you should build a chicken herding farm and be a supplier of KFC.From what i know they pay you good as of minimum return RM10,000 per month.The fishing pond pays off handsomely too as you can export em to other asian countries where the demands are high.

hey nabelon, you can just tell me face2face instead wasting time typing like mat rempit...wasting energy and wasting fossil fuel.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

WTH does typing have anything to do with wasting fuel and mat rempit ? lol..i suggest you open up a rempit race track then.

12 acre is not for mat rempit, they need a 100 acre of straight line bcoz they dunno how to take corners...

threat starter, dont spoil your own threat, one can always go kopitiam/rwi to discuss mat rempit and their skills.

Figured out what to do with your land yet? Suggestion has been made to you, what is your view to each suggestion? Theres also so many options, just waiting for yourself to discover only.

Or you can consider selling off this land if the price is good. And buy another piece of small land but nearby. Then you can take care of it yourself.

hahahahah i read it too.1 cow will cost u bout rm5k i think.that market pricela

This post has been edited by kunyit_kampung: Nov 25 2006, 11:24 AM

oh yeah if got enough land da kementerian cant give u free up too 300 cows to be breed,yeah free man.......and da land can be a rental land too not that da land must be under ur name,means u can rent a land to get da cow from kementerian

Which kementerian I should go for?

guys, u know why goverment want u to breed cows?
of coz there is the demand and good price

but on top of that the capital to start is damn high and not that easy.
things u got to consider
1. grassland (mantainence and selection, cows dont eat all grass u know)
2. vets (full time if u want breeding and with moe than 100 cows, and cows get sick easily if it is an imported breed)
3. shelter (for 100 cows, thats huge)
4. aux devices (errr, contraptions for breeding)
5. etc etc, forgot already la

anyway u get the idea, but if can pull it off and find the right people then grab the chance to do it.

thank you guys