Thank you so much! 😀

I did not know your area, I expect from KV. Hope this helps

Hi guys, I am into agriculture as well. Do you have wassup group or anything?

hi guys, i'm a student, and i'm sitting on a 5 acres of land in lanchang, pahang that my mum had no use for. she gave me permission to do away with it, and i thought why not farming / fishing right?

thing is, i have no idea where to start. i was thinking on going to local seminar and workshop by the agriculture ministry just so that i can get a gist of what i can and should do with the land in the future. but any more input / ideas / direction would be much appreciated. thanks

first thing first - do you have people to run it?

fish farming is good idea. What fish you want to get?

maybe can start by joining agriculture/kebun FB group and ask question there. the land you have quite big. maybe can have a combination of farm/fishing/etc.

If u know nothing, u get the right move joining workshop from ministry. Im highlighting Ministry because they are the one teach real thing. Fishery is better but much more complex and capital involved. I suggest u start from small step before leap ahead. Many cheater in this industry, i met a few but ignored. We got scam case from LYN too.

Assume u get the training done, 5 acres u need minimum cash 60-80k for land preparation, basic irrigation equipment, fertilisers and basic equipments. Worker excluded; are u full time taking care of it? Pls always rmb, workers are not dependable unless u lucky enough to get a good one.

After knowledge, capital prepared, what u want to plant? Short, medium, long term crop? For size of land u having, palm oil is not recommended because too small to get enough return. Durian, no, unless u do this agri on part time basis apart from fixed salary.

This post has been edited by Chisinlouz: Sep 27 2018, 09:39 AM

yea, I agree with this. Really important. +1000. My agro startup failed because of this.

Just sharing my small experience but i've been there hands on. Dont worry bro, if got money still can try again but dont 100% gamble on it.

You better off rent the land and get steady income from the rental.

1) you are student and you are not full time farmer.

2) you know nothing yet, 0 experience

3) even in agriculture, the chance of failure is highs

4) you need cash to start.

Is the land cleared of any big trees?

Water source?
Electricity?
Any monkey around?


For short term, try maize or.cucumber.
That is the lowest initial cost I can think.

Guys, I am a EE engineer by profession I am thinking to venture into Agri and mix up my skill to provide some automation to this field? Does anyone have thoughts and suggestion on how do I to start with?

What happened to the newsletters - are you still farming?

Hi. Agri field is broad and basically divided into vegetation, fisheries, others ie palm oil ect.

You can specify which subsection u wish to venture into and make a start from there.

Cheers

This post has been edited by Chisinlouz: Jan 29 2019, 12:44 AM

May i know if Matag only suitable planted in flat land? Have anyone do it at slope hill land?

Is Red tilapia and Patin viable for aquaculture commercially now a days? Is there an estimated price?

Also if I want to make my own feed for the above species, can anyone provide a good recipe of the above two types of fish??. TIA.

There are people rear at commercial scale. But how big im not sure.

Best if you learn from someone who alrdy doing it but not easy to get sifu, and one that teach u everything.

Learn by blind bump...can learn more but idea of throwing money not recommended.

U can try ask gov dept for information but their suggestions is more ideal on commercial scale.

Risks exist on all options.

Pick your choice.

"Pai seh" currently we are only keeping a few red tilapia in a natural pond to understand if.....
1. We know how to keep them alive and healthy.
2. Understand the cost components
3. Understand the market situation and options
4. Understand the risk at our farm. Especially erosion from other places during monsoon.
5. Understand what other things we can do at the farm together with growing tilapia.

At the moment, if we can break even, we will be very happy liao. For now, it's more of a learning process.

And I agree, risk exist everywhere. But if you never do, you will never know, so we taking baby steps. 😁 Do slowly and keeping our eyes Wide open. 😁

If not doing in quantity fish feed will kill your business. It's expensive. Let alone disturbance and poisoning if you don't abide.

Anyway good luck

Oh, 😁 You're right.

Currently we are using about 4-5kg of commercial feed a day only, so we are still far from doing it ourselves.

It more for calculation and projection. At the same time understanding the science of it.

But using solely commercial feed, we are realizing that we can only do retail sales. So looking for places where we can reduce cost, so that bulk selling is also a viable option.