somehow you have to find ponds, rent or own land with good water source, water source is the most important.

Or you can use fibre tanks and cement ponds.

The many people here can give you good advice.

Don't even know what type of fish you looking to rear

Not to be rude, but people now a days, want to do something (no plans, no direction, no experience) and want to make a profit. How to make a profit if everything is not in place? You'll be lucky if you don't loose all your capital/savings.
Planning
Budgeting
Site Selection
Trial Run
Mobilization
Production
Post Harvest Management
Logistic
Marketing
And very important, An Exit Plan
This is just something that I can thing of in this instant.
Sorry ah, please don't take this personally.

Actually everything in agriculture and aquaculture can be profitable when doing it right.

Most important is to have a target. Choose one to start with and be good at that.

Because today Plant A is the most profitable, tomorrow Plant B or C will be the most profitable.

In the end, it's the knowledge and experience that will really make it profitable and lower the risks.

Simply, many people only think of easy way out to make quick $.

In agriculture, there's no shortcut.

If One is heavily loaded, then can most probably employ specialist to do all the work, from business proposal, right up to daily running. One can just sit in the A/C and issue orders to all the staffs. This shall be really nice, hope all of us can do this one day.

Seriously, even if I'm super loaded.

I would still want to know everything and experience everything from A to Z even I do have specialists.

At least I do not need to rely on my specialists or my employees the day they no longer reliable and turn devil.

One of my client invested heavily in his farm, relying on his manager. Suddenly, things don't work out, the manager left, and he's in trouble. Thankfully he got to know me just in time.

Then come again the offer he put $, I put effort, give me 50% profits. I told him off that he's a rich lazy man that don't learn from past mistakes.
Now he's my loyal client.

My motto is "Don't think you can grab me by my balls"

Oh yes, I do understand what you mean. I had this experience, and am force to learn from ground zero. On the bright side, am now progressing to learn propagation.
I believe we shall all be able to make it. Just put in more effort, keep learning and don't give up.

Year 2012 coming to an end. Need to take stock on what had been done during the this year and plan my strategy for 2013.

I know and able to do everything by myself. Hiring ppl just merely to do my job that I already know. Even got myself lorry driving license. So no employees can squeeze me. Anyway I do rate my employees performance 10/10 each of them. I do pay them way above market rate for the job they doing and I glad they made it really worth to me.

I don't see much people here invest in tilapia farming in this forum. The return not as attractive?

Still looking for Eksotica II seeds, any one can help?
Thanks.

Hi guys, I am trying to find a land to lease in Johor. Need some help here as I find it hard to get a piece of land. I've tried visiting MCA but they only have land for sale. Thanks in advance.

Happy New Year. May the year 2013 bring prosperity to everyone. Cheers!

Anyone into Apiculture, Bee keeping?
Looking for a mentor to guide me to start up.
Thank you.

bro,

there is a course you can take in Melaka and this person is quite experienced. maybe you can try them ?

Hi guys...still remember my post earlier about my duck farm?

those ducklings are now bigger... they should be layng eggs end of the month

hi, can shifu here help me identify these types of chillis? can make a profit from them? many told me they are rarely sold at market..

type 2 chilli is slightly longer than the other two, thinner with sharper tip and a bit crumpled looking.


and is the last one peppermint plant? any commersial value? thanks

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Congratulation suknat, see you are making good progress. The ducks are big. Wishing you plenty golden eggs to harvest after CNY.

hahaha, ironically i call my farm as " golden egg agro farm"

ah_suknat:

Congrats, and thanks for sharing.

chinyen:

Type 1 is a type of cabai burung (bird's eye chili). When immature, it is purple in color, right? It is supposed to be very hot, more so than the much larger cili api. This variant is quite rare on the open market. Type 2 looks like the normal garden chili, with elongated leaves. Type 3 is also a cabai burung variant, but it is very commonly found. In Juru (Penang) and Teluk Intan (Perak), both Type 1 and Type 3 are quite abundant.

Hi Agri venturers,

Good day to you. I'm an IT personnel now into tilapia farming in Kuala Selangor for about 4 months. My partner actually has been running the farm for the past 3 years, and i have jumped in the wagon to assist him. We currently growing in semen ponds.

We are revamping filter system and increasing ponds, hopefully to start with new fries by February latest.

I have most of the part covered, except a good source to buy tilapia fry / brood-stocks. I have been following the agri thread , and i believe there is a new hybrid variety is available , and able to reach maturity size in less than 4 months.

Our current batch has been growing slowly, apart from many other issues i believe in-breeding is one them. It will be a great assistance if anyone could provide
contact, whom dealing with hybrid variety / mono sex tilapia fry or brood stocks.

i see. i personally like type 1 chilli and meant to propagate it here in kl. Thank you very much for your reply. REally appreciate it.^^

Dear all,

Still trying to finish the whole thread, but thanks for the contribution and sharing, very very useful for newbie like me. Currently I'm studying and may venture to agriculture business in the near future.

One of the thing that I'm working on now is to check if it is feasible to use a solar power system. Anyone has tried this before?

Thanks