Aug 3 2011, 02:27 PM
QUOTE(MrFarmer @ Jul 29 2011, 08:16 PM)
Thank Michael,
Not too worried about marketing at the moment as I'm just on an experimental stage and my produce is very minimal (most are not maturing yet). We have ready reseller requesting to buy as our farm is located in front of the access road to 4 more farms
Talk about location. We have buyers from the village market, town market and also buyers who buy and send down to Kota Kinabalu. Am also contacting buyers who claim to offer 'higher prices' but wants quality products for the Brunei market.
On the bath-tub pond, I shall re-work like building a roof to lower the water temperature, check if I can increase the water flow (free mountain water by gravity feed). Hopefully the shall also help on the temperature & the biological load. By the way, discussing this with you actually got me thinking that I could re-route the overflow water to run through the small slope of our Yam patch. Those Yam at the top of the slope is growing slower that those growing next to the creek. I think most probably due to water shortage. Also I could most probably increase the land size of the Yam patch to near the water run off. Work on this as soon as I'm back at the farm.
Added on July 29, 2011, 8:24 pm
As far as I know, Serai does not need much maintenance. We planted ours by just making a hole about 1X1 ft 6ft apart and planted a few strand 3 months ago. Did weeding twice and fertilize once. If I remember correctly when we planted, it was about $0.50 per kilo.
Better go check on the Gaharu, here we have people even stealing rubber trees clone. You'll need to do some maintenance otherwise weeds shall grow taller than the trees (vine type) and deprive the Gaharu of sun light. You have workers staying on site?
Added on July 29, 2011, 8:29 pm
Hi Chenyin, Yes Serai =Lemongrass. I didn't know that you can make drinks out of it. It's suppose to be easy to cultivate, with not much care required. Make a hole, plant 3 ~ 5 strands, water for the first week, harvest ~ 8 months latter. Keep some for replanting.
Say what sort of current market price are we looking at?
It used to be RM2 per kilo. Can't believe the price drop to 50 cents per kilo. Unbelievable.Not too worried about marketing at the moment as I'm just on an experimental stage and my produce is very minimal (most are not maturing yet). We have ready reseller requesting to buy as our farm is located in front of the access road to 4 more farms
Talk about location. We have buyers from the village market, town market and also buyers who buy and send down to Kota Kinabalu. Am also contacting buyers who claim to offer 'higher prices' but wants quality products for the Brunei market.On the bath-tub pond, I shall re-work like building a roof to lower the water temperature, check if I can increase the water flow (free mountain water by gravity feed). Hopefully the shall also help on the temperature & the biological load. By the way, discussing this with you actually got me thinking that I could re-route the overflow water to run through the small slope of our Yam patch. Those Yam at the top of the slope is growing slower that those growing next to the creek. I think most probably due to water shortage. Also I could most probably increase the land size of the Yam patch to near the water run off. Work on this as soon as I'm back at the farm.
Added on July 29, 2011, 8:24 pm
As far as I know, Serai does not need much maintenance. We planted ours by just making a hole about 1X1 ft 6ft apart and planted a few strand 3 months ago. Did weeding twice and fertilize once. If I remember correctly when we planted, it was about $0.50 per kilo.
Better go check on the Gaharu, here we have people even stealing rubber trees clone. You'll need to do some maintenance otherwise weeds shall grow taller than the trees (vine type) and deprive the Gaharu of sun light. You have workers staying on site?
Added on July 29, 2011, 8:29 pm
Hi Chenyin, Yes Serai =Lemongrass. I didn't know that you can make drinks out of it. It's suppose to be easy to cultivate, with not much care required. Make a hole, plant 3 ~ 5 strands, water for the first week, harvest ~ 8 months latter. Keep some for replanting.
Say what sort of current market price are we looking at?
No I dont have any workers. I used to pay this Indonesian guy to do maintenance but decided not to hire him anymore because of the pay he demanded. Definitely have to do a lot of work or invest a lot of money to clear the land
This post has been edited by amirbashah: Aug 3 2011, 02:33 PM
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