The Mardi booth was great. Bought a book Serangga Perosak Buah-buahan Tropika Malaysia. It has lots of picture, showing symptoms, pest identification as well as recommended treatment. Unfortunately they only have BM edition. Bought for $70.00.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We tried and is running a small 50W solar panel with a small petrol generator. My estimation, basing on our requirement, cost of material, product availability, the petrol or conventional system is still more economical (excluding environmental benefits).

You'll still need to do your own feasibility study as your may turn out to be feasible as it all boils down to your specific requirement. Also solar product cost over here is higher versus cheap hardware/ small engine which are cheaper here.

Do consider about security as well. Good luck.

If your requirement is not heavy and you have a structure with roof, you may want to consider harvesting rain water. It may be the cheapest. We erect small sheds in our farm to harvest rain water. It's very low on maintenance.

I was at the wholesale market on Saturday, sending my harvest. As I was too early, went to walk about checking out the other stalls and chatting them up. Met 2 gentlemen, pens and a form with all the names of fruits & vegetables. They go from stall to stall, asking how much, wrote down on their form and proceed to the next one.

Lots of question came up on my mind on the accuracy of the "price". Still, it's a good guide, if you don't know where to start.

Would also like to point out that pricing is not the only factor, as with any other business, there are lots of other factors to consider.

Going home for the CNY celebration. Happy Chinese New Year.

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

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.

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!

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 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.

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

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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