sorry bro msg got deleted accidentally by me...haha

what i wanted to say was though there are allocations of up to RM 8B but hardly it will trickle down to farmers. the bulk of it goes to infra works

and there are many overlapping things that the PM announced. IE... Establish the Food and Agro Council for Export (FACE), FAMA is currently performing this role if not mistaken. why not just strengthen it. instead of creating another council with more civil servants

before we are all agreeable on the export market though lucrative, has local demand been sufficiently met ?? if not why head overseas when your local market craves for demand.

We should have a policy where for every 30% of export you sent out 70% must be locally marketed until local demand are met and then we can think of export. keep exporting out at the expenses of the Rakyat.

if there is oversupply in the market of course then you export.

For fun, check this out.

Pumpkin in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CckZJDPmTzA...player_embedded

Enjoy.
Total Produce send pumpkin into space to launch new app

Total Produce have launched the new ‘TOP Fruit Hub’ App for smartphones, which celebrates finding the fun in fruit.

To launch the app Total Produce have made a video which follows Grandfather Eugene Murray and his grandson Sebastian as they endeavour to send Patches the pumpkin on a Halloween adventure into space.

Hi Para,

Just visit my farm 2 weeks back. I have really no times to take care of it. The situation is bad.

Hi Twan,

Welcome. my farm will be about 3 hours from SG. You can go youture search Kampong Teratai. Singaporean go there for durian feast during the session.

I tried these, very juicy, sweet crunchy & strong aroma.

Who is going to Argoworld Expo in Melaka? I will be there this Sat.

I can't go

Teratai, can please take plenty photos and share? Thank you, thank you.

I was there yesterday. well nothing much to shout about except this was like a gathering of 4x4 haha and also farmers from all over malaysia.

most of the booth were promoting oil palm and durian.

Well 4X4 is fun. Durian is terrifically tasty.

How about fertilizer, machinery and other stuff? Solar powered device?

Fancy selling Jackfruit online?

Check this out

http://www.jackfruit365.com/index.html

Bro if you got no time to tend to your farm. try to prevent your tree from flowering so the tree wont be so hurt. and save some of their energy

The expo mainly was covered by Fertiliser & Chemical companies. Machinery only 1 company.

didnt see any solar powered stuff.

but lots of REAL farmers are there compared to MAHA

Hi Para,

My farm is already flower very little compare to other farm. Only one year once compare to other farm that can do at least 2 times a year.

bro,

if you got someone to take care of the farm i can intro a fertiliser programme for your trees. it can help you to revive your trees and then help with flowers of the durian tree

Hi fellow farmers, what are the adjuvants that go well with foliar fertilizer, say Bayfolan?

Hi Para,

What is your fertilizer program?

Now is raining session, the young tree still can survive as long I clean the grass every 2-3 weeks. I wonder when it come to dry session...haiz...

Hello Chris,
I think your question is a bit subjective. I shall assume that you are trying to apply foliar fertilizer by spraying onto the plant leaves. I am not familiar with Bayfolan as I've not used it. Most of the foliar fertilizer has "small molecule" as the "wetting agent" built in. Also depending on what type of plant and method of spraying.

I think you can look for just any wetting agent if you feel that it helps.

I test out Halex Nutra-Phos N, powder form. Was told that wetting agent blended in. I mix it with my DIY EM (fish). I spray with knack pack, pressurized it to max before releasing, aiming at the underside on the leafs (pores are larger on the underside). On my Jackfruit sapling I can see them "penetrating" into the leafs.



Happy farming.

My bad I was in a hurry to post that just now. I'm trying to experiment adjuvants with foliar fertilizer, my target is rubber sapling. From what I've gathered penetrating agent (penetrant) seems to work well with foliar fertilizer as it enhances the ability of fertilizer to penetrate the surface of foliage. I also have a wetting agent at my disposal but I'd only use it during wet seasons to minimize losses. Kinda like your idea of spraying at the underside of leaf. Will check out which side of rubber sapling leaf has the bigger pores lol.

Wow! I've been missing out on a lot of action going on in the thread lei.... haa...

Seriously, Para + Mr Farmer, you guys are awesome in keeping the thread alive!

Before I go on, my apologies to hijacking your current discussion... heh... from the looks of it, it is certainly a lively one.

A little update on my side: I've been testing and propagating a number of heirloom and locally adapted short-term crops lately. Thus far, the number of crops I've been propagating and testing is small, due to space constraint (and my divided time between my "real" research work at the university).

Anyway, the current list of crops being tested and enriched (do note that I only keep heirlooms (H) and non-hybrid, non-GMO open pollinated (OP) variants ):

1. Dimpled Brown Cowpeas (H): Personally selected and bred lines that were drought and wet-feet tolerant. Moderate yielding.

2. Purple-seeded French Beans (H): Does not perform well under drought conditions, in the midst of improvement. Moderate yielding.

3. Dwarf Yellow Popping Corn (OP): Very short stocky plant (about 90cm base-to-tassel). Produces two cobs per plant. Drought tolerant

4. Tadong Groundnuts (H): Unique wet-climate groundnut with bright yellow flowers. Tolerates drought, appears impervious to wet-feet disease (Phytophthora and Fusarium). In the midst of propagation.

5. Crimson Giant Radish (H): Wet weather and drought tolerant variety of giant red radish. Variable performance, will continue selection for local adaptation.

6. Sarawak Butternut Squash (OP): I don't know where this variety originates from, but here in Kuching and Samarahan area, we find them everywhere. Even by the roadside. Amazing squash variant, produce fruits that range between 2kg-5kg each. However, very sensitive to water stress (drought). In the midst of propagating.

7. Blue Jade Corn: Another dwarf variety of corn, multi-purpose (popping, whole, and milling). As the name says it, the corn kernels are purple-blue. Reaches 90+cm height, but produce 2-3 small cobs only. A little sensitive to wet weather and drought. In the midst of propagation.

8. Taragang Groundnut (H): Another peanut variant, from Sabah. Yet to be tested, but supposed to be much higher yielding (average 3 seeds per pod).

9. Red Egg Tomato (OP): A very thick-fleshed tomato, about the size and shape of a large chicken/duck egg. Here is Sarawak, you find them everywhere; gardeners and farmers alike just love them. Not normally sold by weight, but by number (4-5 pieces for RM2). Performance somewhat variable, depending on genes inherited. Some plants known to grow up to 6 feet tall, others 2-3 feet tall. Moderately productive.

10. Cili Goronong (OP): A type of Habanero chili that apparently has been grown in Sarawak for decades. And yes, it is used here in almost everything spicy (especially the sambals). Not as hot as one thinks, and smells real fruity.

11. Cili Antu (OP): Looks, smells, and burns just like the Naga chili famed for its super-hot touch. Could be a recent import. I almost had to be hospitalized for chemical burns while harvested the seeds from this chili. Even the vapor stings your nose. No joke.

12. Javanese Ginseng (OP): Does not look like the famed Sino ginseng roots, although there are some resemblance in the shoots. It is eaten like a vegetable in the interior parts of Borneo island, roots shoots and all. Very easy to seed, almost weed like. Hope it isn't "weed" substitute, as it seems to have some kind of calming effect on people (noticed that with a bunch of hyperactive kids).



Well, those are the crops I've collected thus far. Some are not local, but are being locally adapted. Others seems to have been adapted already, and some appear to be unique to this part of the world.

Aside from seed collecting, I've also been dabbling in a bit of permaculture-ish methods. Namely, I've been trying out companion planting, whereby crops are grown together in a limited space to complement each other. Classic example of this is the "Three-Sister" method of pumpkin-corn-bean. For me, I've been testing bean+tomato+garlic, corn+groundnut and chili+bean. So far, the most successful ones are the corn+groundnut.

This post has been edited by Michael J.: Nov 13 2013, 10:47 AM

Sorry ya, guys. I know you all are in the midst of a discussion about jackfruits, but I thought this would be worth sharing:

http://eatsshootsandroots.org/

I noticed some talk about permaculture. If there are interest in it, do feel free to check up the above organization. They are located in Selangor (Jalan Gasing), and are quite active, and are associated with Seed Savers Australia. Check up Shao-Lyn or Sabina.

Also, the organization does seed exchanges on a regular basis. So if you guys have any interesting seeds (open pollinated or heirloom seeds only) that you'd like to trade with their collection, do contact them.

I will be sending them a package of locally adapted varieties very soon (which is part of the reason why I've not been active in the forum for quite a while).

I usually sees Bonding and Wetting agents in our local agrishops.
I'll check to see if there are any specialized Penetrant on my next visit.
The wetting agent that I am using is also from Halex, Halexpol which active ingredient polyglycol ether. This reduces the surface tension, ease the osmosis and let it passes into the leafs.

Please do share if you find more infor on the Penertrant. I am interested, maybe it may be of use to me in the future. Thank you.

Speaking on rubber sapling, I had just a few which I spray with Nutra Phos. It's responding well. I shall try to get my hands on some 1 malaysia clone (3001) in the future to produce scion.

Say, can visit your nursery?