QUOTE(rexis @ Sep 21 2007, 10:37 AM)
Yeah, rabbitry guy, can provide some insights? Much appreciated! Btw, how good is rabbit droppings as fertilizer?
Gov websites play a vital role of providing information, but they are not that properly maintained, but still its better then nothing. For example it took 10mins just to load that sabah agriculture dept website, not much info inside, but got some financial plans and economics for planting certain types of crops, not sure if the content update enough to reflect nowadays price or not, but at least they give you some idea what you need to budget.
By simply putting up "agri is businss" banner wont help much, it is up to one person's initiative. If one is really interested about fish farm, he will not sit there and wait fish come to him, he will go out and find out about it.
May i ask, whats the difference of interest in agriculture or any field, and interest in money?
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Theres one time I has been talking about agriculture venture to my friends(you know, first the frustration of working as an employee and then wanted to work for self thingy), they became so enthusiastic and feel so eager to start as soon as possible, and they are interested in whatever I told them and wanted to do whatever I told them.
I brought books, magazines, articles for them, and talk about crops, organic farming, earthworm, etc etc. They wanted to all of them! And even trying to start a farm at a backyard garden(which is very far away at someone's hometown), something like start small, expand later. Thou I did told them about scale of economic and can get some monthly RM200 per acre land reasonably nearer, it was like unacceptable to them, too expensive or something.
Some discussions occur, conclusion like dun involve too many people will spoil the soup, dun involve women they will quarrel (i would want an extra pair of hands:/), must work out cleary on the money issue(now we are getting close to the point), etc etc.
Theres still one thing, I cant see how will this little project be done with all the guys are staying 100km+ away from the site(which is smaller then my apartment) and with a full time job that require 90% of their awake time. But well, since they are so interested, I am willing to provide the technical info, contacts, and so on.
Until one day, this friend told me:"When I got the money, I will invest to you, since I see you so wanted to do it, while i will go 'diversify' into other things."
It was like a punch in my heart and I realised, they are not interested to nature or organic farm or how to counter chili diesease or set up their own farm whatever shit, they are just interested in numbers printed on dollar notes. I was unhappy hearing that comment, hell, half the point is to get rid of boss and be your own boss, and now you want to be my boss??? I didnt say anything, just oh ok.
I dont talk alot about my ambition since then. If there is one person I am willing to work for, that would only be my soon-to-be-wife
Agriculture is business. So, hey, are you interested in the business part or the agriculture part?
Example, our thread host, paraOptical, I talked so much about chili, sweet corn, blah, hes determined to raise fish, I can see he is most interested in tat field.
Rabbit's feces is a very good organic fertiliser. It will encourage the growing of earthworm.
Added on September 22, 2007, 12:56 amQUOTE(kelvintan_mobile @ Sep 21 2007, 12:46 PM)
partime? so who take care of the daily affairs of this farm since u do it parttime? food for rabbit , cleaning, etc.. ?
Or I can say is i have two full time job. I am a tuition teacher and a rabbit farmer. I have a worker will do all the routine works. I only go there twice or three times a week.
Added on September 22, 2007, 1:12 amQUOTE(rexis @ Sep 21 2007, 02:40 PM)
Ahh, a part timer. I know in KK, Sabah, the weekly market at Gaya Street there a lot of pet rabbit stall. No idea where they breed their rabbit, but perhaps you can have an idea where to look for interaction among local 'rabbitrier'.
I dont know too much about rabbit, but I do understand that the entire autralia continent do have rabbit problem and is one of their major agriculture pest(like mice problem in oil palm plantation), which started from some old time colony westerner that brought in rabbits as their hunting game, the rabbits escaped and over breed, autralia climate is somewhat hot and dry, perhaps you can look for some suitable breed from there?
Do Malaysia have any local rabbit species? Cross breed them
Or perhaps breed the rabbits for a few generation, their kids might be more torelate to malaysian climate. - Got this conclusion from an article about breeding earthworm
In Australia and many other countries, wild rabbit is considered as pest. I have read from books, the government there purposely introduced virus in to wild rabbit/hare to kill them. But they still have pure breed as pet. They have rabbit show also.
From what i learnt, no any breed of rabbit originated from Malaysia.
From my opinion is, for pet purpose, mostly people prefer pure breed. Malaysia is quite hard to see pure breeds. There is 45 recognized breeds by ARBA. I have registered my farm and i as a member. So I can update myself.
Although our climate and weather is hot and humid, but once the imported breed adapted, then the problem is solved. This will take about 1 month times. Our climate is quite stable. The temperate country which has 4 seasons, there is extreme cold and hot. Heat stress is a mojor problem in animal farming. Thats why major poultry farm is using closed system.
If for meat production, you may crossbred the rabbit. Like what our goverment has done to cattle, fish, prawn, and some plants. But it cost a lot. But I have visited to 2 meat production farm. My view is the rabbit in their farm is too small/light. I think is about 3 to 4 kg only. It is not efficient enough. Rabbit have to spend about 5 months to achieve the mature size. I am not in meat production line, I really don't know when will they slaughter the rabbit.
This post has been edited by beh_yo_rabbitry: Sep 22 2007, 01:22 AM 
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