guys, how do you usually market your agri products?
I dont know how to expand my product (salted egg) to the more up market like super market...

its sad cuz here in sabah they prefer the salted egg in the form of non salut tanah liat...they like the clean one...which the process is making the egg to spoil faster than the salutan tanah liat method...

the extreme weather also causing my ducks to die...luckily only 3 this month out of 2000 ducks...

also I wanted to ask if any of you guys actuaklly received any help from the ministry of agriculture...what kind of help? consultation? moneytary?

The weather is extreme. It was very hot from morning until afternoon and suddenly there was heavy rain that cause the small durian drop down. Majority farm in my village are affected. Only very few farm that take pre-caution that watering their farm daily can sustain to have more durians.

How about your sifu's farm in Raub?

Hi Bro,

OIC. its quite true that proper irrigation and fertiliser management and actually help minimise flower drop.

my sifu's farm in Raub is doing fantastically. as of 2 months back he had already on the tree 6 ROUNDS of DURIAN (from flower to anthesis to fruit).

so in essence it can be said that he has durians every 2 months. which is really out of this world.

then you sifu must make a lot of profit. Musang king carry a very good price. Farm price for musang king is rm25++ last week.

This post has been edited by Kg Teratai: Jun 13 2013, 03:57 PM

Jaya Jusco selling $50 less 30% = $35.00 . Opened packed in styrofoam.

Root Hormone / Rooting Gel / Rooting Powder

Some interesting information to share.
Looks like we can substitute the above with honey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyQX9kUAohk

Happy Farming.

Hi ah suknat,
What I did was that I went to the market (meet lots of potential prospect). Try selling to them. Get feed back. Decide what is my market segment, what tier. Hit on those, feedback and adjust to fit. This is an on-going exercise.

With these information, you can adjust/time your production, harvesting. Improve post harvesting, transportation, lessen spoilage & etc.

Super Markets, those big guys, you'll need to visit the top people, purchaser at the central office, get your product listed first (approval), then liaise with the ordering clerk.

You can try FAMA to request for help on Marketing your products.

I had been to the Pertanian to request for assistance as I got wind that there is a program for growing Papaya back in February. I was told that the program had closed and that there had submitted it for approval. When I probe further, I found that I don't qualify. A planting land size of no less then 20 acres (may join up with your neighbors). All land must have titles. Upon approval, must attend a course to plant. Seeds and fertilizers shall be given. They may help you to market you produce. I also found out that they take a couple of months to get things moving, approval, seedlings. Maybe about 9 months. This may be a problem if it's a rented land.

Hope these help.

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Visited my farm for a 5 days last week. Farm is in a mess, grass over grown, weather drying up the land. Plants dying........
Shall be going back to work on the farm early July.
Luckily my guys harvested the pumpkins. The remainder I guess shall not perform as it's drying up due to the weather. As the Papaya is getting smaller..

it's time to switch to new fruit

i can only leave my farm unattended maximum 2 weeks, by that time all the grass are fat..
transplanting some bananas soon... dry season will be a good time.

p/s: can put more pictures on the next edition?

This post has been edited by poks: Jun 26 2013, 01:23 PM

we will try to bro.

do you have any experience you want to share ?

do write to us at agrinaquanewsletter@gmail.com

Our next edition will be in September 2013

Well, i'm not a good writer. Lol

Btw mr Para, do your banana have been infected with sigatoga?
I have a feeling mine is infected but not severe.

Hopefully you can share some fungicide brand.

Hi poks,

none of us are good writers also. we just want to contribute and we hope that you are also able to contribute and make it better with your experience also.

yeah my banana trees were also infected with mild sigatoga (sp) ...

if not mistaken i used Mancozeb and some sticky liquid so it sticks to the banana leaves. please treat it when you see the symptoms and also best to enquire from the agriculture shop.

Thanks for the info Mr Para,

I did ask around but most agriculture shop (which i'm fond with) doesn't specialized in banana. mostly short term crops.

Anyway, they proposed to me to try Hexaconazole 5%... will test it this weekend..

Hi Para, what is the "sticky liquid" that you are using, and how "sticky' is it. Am trying to look for a good & cheap 1. Was recommended to use the silicone type, but very costly. Bought 1 that is a wetting & sticking agent, had not tested it yet.

Last week while i was in Raub, due to supply and demand forces the price of Musang King rocketed to RM 40.00 per kg. And imagine if you had 100kg a day that would mean RM 4,000.00 per day....crazy

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Hi poks,

no problem. try it and let us know the result
Hi MrFarmer,

The brand i need to check and update you later. Well the agriculture shop uncle told me its a must thus i think its sticky enough to be applied onto the banana.

the wetting and sticking agent should work out fine.

Thanks for this. Great effort.

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hi fellow food manufacturers....how do you guys get around with promoting your products to the big guys like giants? what is the process, what kind of documents is usually needed, who should I talk to etc?

if you not already know I produce salted eggs,,,