Happy Chinese New Year to all Malaysians....

Am now putting the final touches to the chilli fertigation

and fertilising for the Jackfruit and Papaya trees and finishing work on Friday....

What is the current price for 1kg of vermicompost? anyone know?

Good day agri-Bossings,

I am a filipino working as an IT professional. My family is in to agri business also more of Organic products such as (For crops) organic fertilizer, organic pest control, (For animals) organic deodorizer and organic animal health suppliment.

With my 2 months stay here I can see that Malaysia has an enourmous potential in agriculture so I was thinking that there might be possibilities for us to share our products organic benefits here in your country. I wanted to ask the masters here if that is possible?

for more information about our product just visit our site http://www.naturesbiorganic.com

Sifu, I know it's was dated back in year 2007....however, I'm sure u still can remember about your RAS system.
I'm interested in this RAS system, can you pls teach me how to set up, where to buy those parts....and of course the cost for the system if you don't mind. Many thanks.
Gong hei Fatt choy!

How's your papaya, bearing fruits? Exotica? Good fruits? Maybe can get some seeds from you.

wow..sure promising to venture if i dont have any job.....

Hi guys, I wanna ask, if there's anyone here has bee farm and would willing to sell their extra hives of bees? I hope that this is the right place to ask around. Can anyone enlighten me where to get the commercial honey bees?

Bro, got this from a private company which i dont have their contact anymore. nowadays you can approach MOA and they got info on RAS for you

Just started but havent tasted the fruit yet. One Feet. Update you soon

There is a private bee farm in Pahang which sells them cheap. Let me find the contact. PM me your contact

I found this site while searching for a course in bee keeping as I am looking into this for future development. You may want to contact them.

http://carambolabeefarm.blogspot.com/

Possible to share your experience / plan to start a bee farm?

As with any other ventures, there are high & low. We're here to share our experience and hopefully smoothen your journey.

Bro Mr Farmer,

how's your farm coming along ??

do update us...

Progressing very slowly.
Just finished harvesting our pumpkins. Next harvest maybe April. Price at the moment is all time low.
The Berangan and other banana that were planted last year are starting to bear fruits, harvested twice.
Papaya, also planted last year is starting to be harvested in stages. Producing new batch of seedlings. Selling off as raw & ripe.

Anticipating a tough time as the dry & hot season now.

Had a productive day today. Planted 70 jackfruits seedling plant & 50 Berangan & Emas sucklings. Managed to clear about 3/4 acre of land, most probably using it to plant soursop.

Back for my holidays tomorrow. A 2 weeks break

Happy Chinese New Year!

Jackfruit Tree attacked by Borer. To be taken care of by 505






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Foot Long Papaya. Had been using Amino Pure for 2 weeks and the result is showing already as the higher 'branches' shows growth and getting bigger than the lower ones.

It's nice to see you people doing agri

since monsoon season is ending here, now planning to revive my small farm.

Mr Farmer, I understand you're from Tambunan? are you getting your berangan supply from someone in tambunan?

HI Poks, no, I'm base in Keningau.
I bought 60 plants of Cavendish form a guy who does tissue culture in Tambunan and he sold it at the Tamu @ Keningau. That was way back 2011. Out of those, I only manage to raise about 12. They are producing sucklings now. I had stopped transferring these as my buyers are not keen.

Berangan, I got the sucklings from a couple of friends here, just transferred some.

Btw where is your farm, and what are you plans?

Over at my place the hot weather is already here and I guess it's gonna be a tough challenge. Hopefully we do good.

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Jackfruit Tree attacked by Borer. To be taken care of by 505


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Foot Long Papaya. Had been using Amino Pure for 2 weeks and the result is showing already as the higher 'branches' shows growth and getting bigger than the lower ones.


What is 505? I have a couple of old Mango trees, heavily infested with trunk borer. I cut off most of the infected branches as I find it too difficult to treat (height).

I think your planting distance of the papaya could be too close.
I planted initially with 7 ft, then 8 ft. Now my new planting is at 10 ft, which I think should be good. (depending on your variety).

This post has been edited by MrFarmer: Feb 21 2013, 11:09 PM

Hi, I have a piece of land size 5 acres in Jelebu N9 planted with Durians. Thinking of half the durian trees and start a farming venture. Planning to do full time after retiring at 55 recently.
My knowledge of farming is only 10% and have done a lot of reading recently.
All you sifu can please give some advise. TQ

Hi YongBS, welcome to the club.
at least you have a 10% knowledge. I came in with 0%, but am learning everyday and it's a great adventure.
Looking back and practicing which I think is good.
1) Lots of reading on agriculture knowledge, which is plenty on the internet.
2) Getting a good mentor (which I'm still searching)
3) Enlisting the help of Agriculture Dept. ( which is free)
4) Lots of practicing, trial and fine tuning (field work)
5) Persistence, perseverance and highly motivated (Group support, here at this forum).

Wishing you a prosperous venture in agriculture. Do keep us update.

I planted some durian too, but for own consumption. From my research, selling price fluctuate greatly.

Thank you Mr. Farmer, It will be great if you guys can get me a mentor. will take your advice to visit the Agri Dept. Will update my venture/journey for all to share. Cheers

505 is the commercial name of a type of insecticide. useful against trunk borer they said and confirmed by Agriculture Officer.
A method to use is to clear the spot by poking and injecting via the syringe and either wait or cover up with earth.

My planting distance is 10 feet.


Hi Yongbs,

welcome to the club like MrFarmer put it.

All are planted with durians ?? Which clone/clones are they ?

please let us have more details of the farm or more pictures will help