Hi Poks,

whats the expansion plan for your farm ??

sorry bro dont have any contact on fruit ripening facility...cant help you on this

Hi MrFarmer,

sorry to hear about your wife's problem. hope she get well soon.

Hi Bro,

what makes you think that there will be really low productivity ???

for your durians ?

Hi Bro,

OIC. its quite true that proper irrigation and fertiliser management and actually help minimise flower drop.

my sifu's farm in Raub is doing fantastically. as of 2 months back he had already on the tree 6 ROUNDS of DURIAN (from flower to anthesis to fruit).

so in essence it can be said that he has durians every 2 months. which is really out of this world.

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Hi poks,

none of us are good writers also. we just want to contribute and we hope that you are also able to contribute and make it better with your experience also.

yeah my banana trees were also infected with mild sigatoga (sp) ...

if not mistaken i used Mancozeb and some sticky liquid so it sticks to the banana leaves. please treat it when you see the symptoms and also best to enquire from the agriculture shop.

Last week while i was in Raub, due to supply and demand forces the price of Musang King rocketed to RM 40.00 per kg. And imagine if you had 100kg a day that would mean RM 4,000.00 per day....crazy

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Hi poks,

no problem. try it and let us know the result
Hi MrFarmer,

The brand i need to check and update you later. Well the agriculture shop uncle told me its a must thus i think its sticky enough to be applied onto the banana.

the wetting and sticking agent should work out fine.

Hi Bro,

frankly speaking for agriculture industry ie vege planting or herb planting or fruit planting most of the farmers cant hire outside "professional" help due to cost and their are unable to justify this cost or they themselves are lost making

you should be looking into bio-tech companies or companies that has their own lab doing tissue cultures. that would be your best bet.

or you can seek Jabatan Pertanian's help and see if they have a trainee programme that you qualify to go to as i believe fruit farming you can make a comfortable living with proper technique and technology...

Hi Cattitude,

thanks for reading about this thread.

well we actually discuss everything and anything under the sun. Agriculture & Aquaculture related are the focus of this thread.

Some are in this field (graduated in agriculture field), some like me (accounting background) and mrfarmer are from non agriculture background.

What we do basically is either share information or ask for other people's advice on how they overcome their problems....

About your issue, no offence but if you are targetting to oil palm or rubber estates i would discourage you (dont get angry) because it is really a different world out there especially you are a female because i know of estates or plantation are usually on the path less traveled. And security will be an issue and of course the travelling of far away places.

You represent a agriculture fertiliser company ?

Welcome to the thread again....

Hi Bro,

welcome to the thread.

my veges and fruits and chicken and fish are usually planted and reared for own consumption. so yeah because of organic fertiliser and no pesticide so the stuff taste great, and no antibiotics

personally i am a Jackfruit & Papaya & Durian fruit farmer

Hi Bro,

yes i intend to budgraft them but not currently. maybe next or so because i am concentrating on my jackfruit, papaya & soursop now.

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Hi Bro,

welcome abroad.

What does your agronomy degree specialises in ?? it depends. my view on fruit tree farming are great. the potential is unlimited (i sound like MLM) but its the truth.

You can head towards some big fruit producing companies or some fertiliser companies to get your basic knowledge...

Hi Bro

the prospect is good for prawn farming as most of our prawns are exported to EU & USA. But please head over to Jab Perikanan for Business Advice and proposal. they are best to help you.

but also beware that currently USA might impose "Anti-Dumping Duty" due to some unscrupulous
companies getting cheap quality prawns and resell as Malaysian prawns.

this industry has good potential.

i would like to apologise because i am not able to give your more in depth advice because i am currently in Fruit Farming, and that's my forte

Hope this helps

welcome bro...

how is everyone's farm doing ???

its the raining season....

great on doing the soursop. if you have problem on the soursop trees i can help you with it

also on the jackfruit trees

practically what you mentioned below on jackfruit is what i see in Mantin. fresh, whole and cut fruits and recently sold as jams....

you are planting alot ?

Welcome bro.

Do update us on the processes for jackfruit when you finished compiling them for your Indian Friend.

As for me currently working on my papaya planting and also plan to do a Trial Plot for J33 - Honey Jackfruit and i want to see how early can the tree fruit.

Also will plant some soursop trees also. Busy with the piping works now for the plots

Hi Bro,

thanks for visiting the blog. soon i will add another blog on soursop. Buddha say, "Sharing Wisdom is Good Merit". Thus i hope to share what i learnt from other farmers also. If you have questions do ask...would try to answer as much as possible...

will read about the jackfruit problems they are encountering and see if any ideas come up. Do you have any specific problems that your friends are facing apart from the file attached ?

Good question on why i chose J33 of all.

Reason No. 1

This clone fetches are very good price here in Mantin. For Clone Yap and Clone Sime Darby, Grade A fruits are only RM 1.30-1.50 per kg MAX. Where as J33 aka Nangka Madu aka Honey Jackfruit fetches are price of RM 1.70 - 2.00 per kg for Grade A fruits. Thus 1st reason is economic.


Reason No. 2

From the data i surveyed, i found that J33 is difficult to cultivate. Why i say so, i had talked to a lot of J33 farmers they are at wits end on how to make J33 fruit all year round and also hitting 20kg and above (more for exports reasons). Thus alot of older generations that are farming Clone Yap & Sime Darby in Mantin are very reluctant to change over because these 2 clones fruit all year round.

I want to help the farmers in Mantin if they allow me to, so i can help them improve yield and make a good living. I would also like
change farmer's mentality that this is a poor man's job and low level profession. 2nd Reason is a challenge for myself and vision to help fellow farmers. (inspired by Buddha)


Reason No. 3

And as i want to progress into Fruit Farm Advisory i chose J33 for its difficulty to cultivate and if i am able to make J33 fruit all year round and also hitting 20kg and above then i can make ends meet. Thus that's the 3rd reason (Grow myself & $$$)

Cost of plantets that i bought are RM 5.00 each. Irrigation is built so i depend less on foreign workers and weather for my trees. I strongly suggest you slowly have irrigation for your place if permitted. Great benefits for your plants and yourself.

I think i am one of the crazy few that would love dry spells throughout the year because with irrigation you dont have to depend on weather for water. If dry spell happens then you are king because most fruit trees will drop fruits due to no water and IF you have irrigation in place then you will be one of the very few with fruits for harvest.

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Durian & Soursop that is intercropped with Papaya quite lucky that place is flat but too many rivers crossing the place. The cost of Durian = RM 7.00 and Soursop = RM 8.00 (all depends on supply also, sometimes wait 2-3 months also no tree)

My intention of that land was for the papaya to generate income and cover for the waiting period of 3-5 years for Durian and 2-3 years for Soursop thus i tried ploughing in lots of organic into it. 10 ton of FOM 361 = RM 10,000.00. In that one acre, i am able to plant 400 papayas with 12 durians (40x40) and 48 soursops (20x20).

If this plan works out (hopefully) i can expand and also present this paper to potential investors and show them planting durian or soursop dont have to painful as it is now. LOLx....

I had set up irrigation and i will update the blog by monday. I think my type is the sour one haha...but i will check with the nursery. Prices of soursop fruit = RM 18.00/kg at the market

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Yeah glad we have lots to talk about and when you are back in KL, do call me and we can visit again...would love to get your ideas. You meant Soursop trees ?? If on soursop i am not sure about it but my tree fruited around 18th months.




Sorry for the long post. Do share if you have other thoughts bro


This post has been edited by ParaOpticaL: Sep 27 2013, 07:35 PM

Hi Bro,

Yeah planting stock is abundance cause there are a lot of nursery. possibly you could be one big one in Sabah

The Red Colour nangka could be Clone Yap. Wow your sousop fruited in 30 months. btw how long do they need to ripe ??

if you have the sweet variety please give me some if you have extras would love to get a few.

Well i found out that with irrigation you can get about a 30% difference. Probably you could do for some of your main crop rather than all.

What breed of papaya are you planting ?? I am planting the Foot Long variety. They are germinating quite well on direct planting.

Frankly speaking no fruit tree crops are lazy man's crop haha sorry about that. the nearest to it is Jackfruit. it has less work for maintaining the tree.

PS if you have good avocado seeds, please pass me some if you have extra. my place kinda difficult to get avocado...lolx

Looking forward to seeing you at the farm when you are back

Hi Bro,

the picture of the mango tree above can be confirmed as APPLE MANGO. saw one tree 2 weeks back.


Red Jackfruit (could be another name here in Peninsula), Borneo (never heard), Mastura (Yes), CJ3 (Yes)

Their prices ranges from RM 7.00 - 12.00

how do you plan to ship them back ???