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.

[quote=ParaOpticaL,Feb 20 2013, 02:45 PM]
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

Hi,
I have about 150 trees consist of D2, D24, D144, Kuning("wong yoke chai"), D197 and others which I could not identify. The whole 5 arces planted with durians.
I have felled about 20 nos of D144 coz this clones never ripe properly but the color of the flesh is bronze. All the trees is about 15 years old except my D197 about 3 years old.
Will get some pictures of the farm during my next trip next week.
Cheers.

Just for laugh and it is real. My last durian harvest in December where I let a friend collect the harvest and sell to middle man and the profit to be share 50/50. At the end of the harvest, I did not get any money(profit) and what I got from him was he bought me 5 nos of D197(musang wong) the reason was the rain that spoil everything, all the durians was not ripe. Believe it or not.

Hi Bro,

i have a durian farm also. with multiple types of clones also. my farm is in mantin & pajam

but the prominent one are D28 & Musang King & D144. From experience your D144 could be due to insufficient fertiliser input because for the past 2 season even though there was alot of rain all of my trees were fully ripe.

Would be great if we could see your farm....eye opener for us.

last season which was nov/dec durians, there was an oversupply of durian for the whole of malaysia and also places in N.9 suffered from excess rain thus quite a no of the farms had uneven ripening. so yes too much rain will cause that to happen.

but that is also due to fertilisation apart from weather

Hi Bro,

Since I am not full time at my farm yet I will make arrangement for the visit. Maybe I can also visit your farm.

Cheers

Got farm visit. Count me in (if before 6/3).

Hi Mr Farmer,

I've actually started planting berangan some 2 years+ back.
I bought about 30+ seedlings from those guys in Tambunan but unfortunately stop doing my farm after my 2nd child came out and I still wonder if i bought the right banana (those bananas ripe green)

I started again with palm oil in kudat (small scale). But now nothing to do since it's harvesting time there. Can't find a soul to open up new area. lol

btw, my farm is in Penampang. just about an acre for me to excercise. Now started clearing and planting ginger.
Gonna do inter-cropping in Kudat as well in between young palm and rubber tree.... ginger also..

hopefully some of you guys can share a thing or two about planting ginger.
i'm planting normal ginger and also the red ginger which i never know it existed until my mother bought some to be planted



This post has been edited by poks: Feb 26 2013, 07:50 AM

Hey, I bough Cavendish and it ripe green too. I replanted some and my buyer says it Pisang Hotel, and they are not keen. Hence had stopped transplanting them. Those that survived bear fruit after 14 months. This taught me that we need to know what we are planting Wasted 14 months of time.

Kudat, nice place. My opinion on palm oil, you'll need a sizable land size and not too high gradient as these elevate your cost. Unlike Peninsular, collection here is difficult due to difficult access (higher transportation & access road cost). There are a couple of options clearing new land, speak with the locals, near your farm, mechanical or manual, time require, budget & etc. Then make your decision. Had just cleared 3/4 acres on 19th, by slashing. Preparing the area to plant soursop. Inter-cropping, don't think it's advisable to do palm & rubber, it's either one only both are big & long term crops. Then you can inter-crop with other smaller / mid or short term crops. I had seen very successful palm & pumpkins.

Penampang it's close to the city. Ginger is planted in big scale in Tambunan. Medium scale in Keningau (highlands). I had tried ginger, did okay in trial but failed when tried it in medium scale. Marketing could also a problem (me, no access to market).

Wishing good success.







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Well, that's a good lesson for us.
anyway, if you manage to get the actual cavendish sucker do share.. my interest is still in.

as for the inter cropping, the palm and rubber trees are still young (around 9 months - 1 year trees) & going to test ginger after paddy harvesting season is over. i'm at the mercy of cost and the only option for me to clear land is by man power only.

yes. kudat is nice. but a lot of undeveloped land due to poverty.
all the young guys move to city but never drop their sweat to grow anything on their big family land

Shall concentrate on the Berangan as the marketing is easier. My buyers isn't familiar with Cavendish and with a bad experience, better stick with the proven varieties.

Land in Kudat I guess is less mountainous. Went there a couple of times, but only to the Tip Of Borneo.
It's the 'norm' for youngster as life in city is glamorous. Agriculture is hard and I feel you shall need a certain land size to be feasible.

Good luck to all of us.

Hi all

Iam new to agriculture and aquaculture industry. Iam from Singapore and thinking of opening up a farm in Malaysia with some people.

Well actually someone else is looking for a land in Malaysia and he is interested in agriculture industry. He has a farm in Philippines and elsewhere with other people. Iam just starting to learn new things and this guy knows alot of things about planting stuff.

So Iam looking for land for lease, he said he wants to start with kelapa sawit. I have seen some ad online and somewhere else, but I do not know whether to trust them as I have some relatives who have been cheated when they are about to buy house in Johor. So can I get some recommendation from the trustworthy people here to lease land in Malaysia? How much is 1 acre cost?

Thanks

Hi Zyper, welcome to this forum. Welcome to Malaysia.

Investing in whatever business in a different country is always a big challenge. Business and Land code differs between country to country. Please proceed with great caution.

Do do a land search with the Land & Mine department once you had identify the land as this shall provide you with the status of the land, official owner, any caveats & etc. Do go through the proper channel to get things done officially.

Land prices differs greatly from location to location, land condition, size & etc. A good place to gauge shall be @ Mudah.com.

Enjoy your journey.

Welcome abroad...

careful when you go on buying land.
its more important to source for property agents that cover areas that you are interested to buy rather than simply going online. this is because there had been land scams where the land was sold over and over a few times...

what kind of farming are you planning to do ???

Oil palm is profitable provided you have a big land to do so. if too small it is just uneconomical...

Some problems with my Papaya. Have a couple of trees with this problem. Any idea?