Well hello there fellow durian farmer. I have 4.7 acres of land in Tapah, Perak Jln Cameron Highlands. Its basically an unkept dusun. I plan to start planting 110 durian trees combined of D200, D197, D168, D24 and durian kampung. Now land clearing.

What i can advice is drill a tube well for water source. U need to remove all the sawit trees prior bcos the durian saplings will lose out to the sawit trees (sawit trees sucks a lot of nutrients/fertilizer from the soil). They are hungry trees those sawits.

As for short term crops for cash flow my friend plants papaya in his sawit farm. Not beside the sawit trees but a dedicated area cleared for sawit. The issue now is wild boars and diseases. Wild boar u need to dig a trench and fill it with water. Beside the trench pile the sawit tandan, leaves that acts as a 2nd barrier against the wild boars. Ur papaya area shall be square shape with the trench along it.

U need to find resistant papaya seedling bcos papaya normallly prone to fusarium wilt and other type of fungus/viruses. Go to MARDI for the papaya seedling.

Send ur soil for a soil test, some sawit farms have masam soil, not good for durian.

Dont listen to other people laa. These folks dont know anything about farming. Let the pros talk maa.

Well hello there fellow durian farmer. I have 4.7 acres of land in Tapah, Perak Jln Cameron Highlands. Its basically an unkept dusun. I plan to start planting 110 durian trees combined of D200, D197, D168, D24 and durian kampung. Now land clearing.

What i can advice is drill a tube well for water source. U need to remove all the sawit trees prior bcos the durian saplings will lose out to the sawit trees (sawit trees sucks a lot of nutrients/fertilizer from the soil). They are hungry trees those sawits.

As for short term crops for cash flow my friend plants papaya in his sawit farm. Not beside the sawit trees but a dedicated area cleared for sawit. The issue now is wild boars and diseases. Wild boar u need to dig a trench and fill it with water. Beside the trench pile the sawit tandan, leaves that acts as a 2nd barrier against the wild boars. Ur papaya area shall be square shape with the trench along it.

U need to find resistant papaya seedling bcos papaya normallly prone to fusarium wilt and other type of fungus/viruses. Go to MARDI for the papaya seedling.

Send ur soil for a soil test, some sawit farms have masam soil, not good for durian.

Dont listen to other people laa. These folks dont know anything about farming. Let the pros talk maa.

4.7 acres for 110 tree, it will be very wide open.

Well tube is one of the option before, however, i am trying not to use the underground water. Overuse of underground water is not an environmental friendly option.

I will clear of all the sawit in the farm. Therefore, sawit will no be an issue for me.

The wild boar and monkey are not problem for my farm.

I will go Mardi to ask about the seeding.

Thank you.

I can see you have different strategy by having different crops in your farm. It is good choice also.

If you really experience the durian price in 2002-2005, you will know how it feel when the durian price drop.

Yes. It is easy to DIY. However, from my humble knowledge of nothing, I am afraid of the material. Many like to use PVC etc for Hydroponic/Aquaponic. I do not know the long term effect of the material which will absorb by plants which might be toxic for human. Meanwhile, the material use specially for hydroponic are quite expensive compares to you buy the pipes etc.

Dear all, do you have any experience in renting land?, having quite a PITA problem here

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With the oversupply of durians lately. What is the future prospect of growing this fruit? Will there still be a demand for it?

imho demand is there. only the price will keep on fluctuating. see video in youtube. some of the durian orchard owners have been planting it since 1980s. it’s a long term investment.

Hi all sifus,

I'm a research student who is trying to venture into testing my treatment in tilapia model. Does anyone know the best farm where can I purchase tilapia fingerlings (~3 inches) for about 200 in quantity? And also, what's the expected/estimated selling price?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I would definitely appreciate any help/insight.

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HI all, I am looking to explore an opportunity of exporting artemia to Australia however I have no experience in this industry at all as I am in the banking industry, based in Australia.

Source orginates from Vietnam/ China with the cold storage based in Malaysia.

I am looking for someone who has experience in this industry or have done something similar before to explore this further.

Please drop me a PM and we can go from there.