And above, so the idea is to get a feel of fish farming first rather then hoping to one step to success. And more importantly, dont give up easily.

Yes, talapia is easy to breed, and can be harvested in as little as 6 months, and you are not even feeding them commercial fish feed, just fermented rice bran for most of the time. But of course, if you want them to grow until bigger size u need more time and better feed, but still only take less then a year.

Keli is even easier to breed, you not even using pond, just use poly tank enough.

This post has been edited by rexis: Dec 31 2009, 12:09 AM

any meeting for people in this business? I am very interested =)
I am willing to share my knowledge about SOON HOCK =D

Guys,

This is to serve notice to potential worm farmer who are interested in the worm farming. Please ensure that you refrain yourselves fom dealing with Wayne Fauser the so called wormman from Australia.

We have met more than 10 people all around Malaysia right from Perlist to Sabah who claimed they invested in Wayne Fause 's project. But they didn't get their so called "TONS and TONS of WORMS". All but promises.

Some of the projects is more than 1 year long without seeing 1 kg of worms.

Thus, collectively, a police report was lodged against WAYNE FAUSER - theWormMan or CON?

Please read through this blog for details:

http://thewormman-police-report.blogspot.c...yne-fauser.html

Before departing with your money, ask yourself if is his deal is TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?


Faithfully,

Stupid Victim of Wayne Fauser - thewormman

i'm interested in meeting ppl in this business as well. do let me know if there's any gathering.

do you breed soon hock?Im interested too

Hi All,
I am new here. I have a piece of agricultural land(3 acres) facing the Straits of Malacca and is a short distant walk to the Rambah Beach, Pontian. I am told Rambah Beach is frequented by tourists as well as locals. I am thinking of transforming my little forest into an "Integrated Farm" where I can sell "Fresh from the farm" produce directly to the tourists as well as locals.

Are there enthusiasts/professionals who can share his/her knowledge or experience in running an integrated farm? or are interested to work with me in setting up and running the farm?

Since I am inexperienced, I am open to all feasible ideas and recommendations.

Thanks, hisland777

If you want to hire, you can pm me..

Recently I came across a piece of news in Daily Express Sabah regarding some 3,000 got cheated up to RM25mil in vermiculture projects, wow. A few while ago, I read about victims from a crab farming investment using recycle water system suffered the same fate of losing their hard earned money.

The moral of the story is there is no free lunch under the sun.

One must remember that agriculture is not some get rich quick plan where you can multiply your investment with little time and effort. The purpose of agriculture as well as any other businesses is to meet demand, if there is no demand, where the bloody hell did you get your returns?

There is a value in vermiculture, but most of the investors has a very wrong concept of treating that as a money printing machine. Yea, rite, worms fetch RM400 monthly and they double the population every months, so can I think that I can get 1x2^11 of your investment back in a year? A thinking like that not only neglect the real growing situation(space, density, stress, sickness, food, care, etc), it also neglect the fact about market demand, who the hell want to spend RM400 on 1 kg of earthworm on regular basis or even RM20 on 1 kg of vermicompost? The farmers out there can barely afford the much cheaper yet expensive chemical fertilizer what are the changes they will spend big bucks on the luxury worm poo?

Furthermore, worm compost has very high N nutrient, but poor in P and K. You still need to put chemical PK.

3,000 cheated of RM25mil in worm-breeding projects

I admire your ambitious plan. You can refer many rose/strawberry farms in Cameron highland as example.

At a piece of land of only 3 acres, I have visited a vege farm in Cameron highland which also operated a steamboat restaurant. So the visitors can while having fresh picked vege steamboat meal, they can have fun and take picture in your farm.

I think this will be much feasible as all you need to do is to set up a farm, a kitchen, and dining area. Vege is fast growing you will be in business in no time! Of course, you can also sell frozen food should your customers do not plan to go vegetarian.

However your primary objective should be getting profitable by supplying produces to pasar borong before you can have any vision 2020, to get yourself a firm ground and get things running.

I am interested to know whats your plan is, do PM me should you made up your mind.

This post has been edited by rexis: Jan 15 2010, 09:36 AM

Hi rexis,
Thank you for your advice and suggestion. If I had to sell my produces through the pasar borong, then I believe the returns from my 3 acre land would be insufficient to breakeven.
I like the idea of running a kitchen and a stall to sell frozen foods as well as fresh farm produce to the customers. I am also exploring the possibilities of bringing in the tourists from Singapore since they also visit the Rambah beach/Bugis museum which is nearby. Most Singaporean live in Hdb apartments with clean, sheltered walkway and they have little opportunity of mingling with nature's settings.
That's why I thought of running an "Integrated Farm" where all the animals(cows,goats etc),birds(hens, ducks etc), fish(freshwater), fruits and vegetables grow in symbiotic relationship to one another.
This is my dream but I do not have the expertise or experience to proceed from here. Any enthusiast or expert here who could shed some light on this? Or are interested to join me?

do u think culturing ONLY soon hock will give profit?
as the growth rate of soon hock is far slower than others ..

i got an offer of a piece of land in slim river,
the owner willing to pump in 300K for this biz ...

wat do u think?

does any one has experience in cultivating.. leeches?

So what do you want to know?

Imho, it is for niche market like medical/cosmetic industry and then local leech farmers mostly make their profit by selling baby leeches to other investors like you.

But seriously, what do yo know and what do you want to find out?

i heard from a friend of mine it is a lucrative business that can be considered. Is it difficult to breed and rare them ?is there market for them in malaysia ?

do you require a large space to breed and cultivate them ?

is there any specific species that is only marketable ?

regards

Sorry guys, post the wrong url of the Police Report Blog.

This is the correct ones.

http://thewormman-police-report.blogspot.c...an-scam-to.html

Since the creation of the BLOG, we have get few more victims in Malaysia who has depart with their hard-earned money but is not given a piece of worm.

We also has been contacted by Australian worm farmers who has been cheated by Wayne Fauser, the so called Worm Man.

From our talk, Wayne Fauser has a police arrest warrant in Australian airports.

Visit our blog for updates.

Thanks!

Victims of Wayne Fauser, the so called worm man

Count me in please.....thanks

Regarding the wormman story, everyone should see things logically. There is always a second opinion required.

I am not too sure about what the wormman involved, but logically, if there is something that is easy to breed, high production, fast to see results... in very short time you can expect to see that there will be same thing happening to the graph - from over demand to over supply.

With all the get-rich-quicker who promised/dreamed about sky high in one step around, you can pretty much kiss all the downstream industries goodbye because all focused on quick cash.

Vermiculture is not some get-rich-quick tools to start with, it has some environmental protection, sustainability and nutrient recycling benefit but people are miss using this excuse to make profit, therefore kill the business real quick.

There is no free lunch in this world, everything has its difficulty.

Has your friend started any leech farm? If so he might know more then me. If he is a hear-say, well, here is my limited understanding of this subject.

Of course you dont need any scale to "start" any leech farm, but were you able to gain any considerable output, that is another question.

Here are the economics I know about.

Factories who might want to buy your leeches: RM60/kg
Medical entities who might want to buy your leeches: 100s /kg

How many kg of leeches you can expect to rear on one particular fibre tank? Of course you need to have some kind of scale to be profitable at RM60 per kg of leeches rite? So now you thinks that the hospitals are willing to pay you RM500 per kg of leeches, remember, if each leeches is at 50g you gonna have 20 huge leeches in 1kg, which is a lot, how many tonnes you expect our local hospitals would consume in one day? Remember, if it is too expensive, and its easy to raise, and the hospital needs lots of them, they can always set up a leech department, since it was mentioned that it can start small above, and hospitals have all the mad labs and equipments.

Then, you would need live keli fish to feed your adult leeches, for their thirst of blood, and for the baby leeches, it is said to prey on small invertebrates like snails. In conclusion, you will always required live bait to feed them. Fresh feed is certainly cost more then processed food, and more hassle too.
(added: I read years ago that commercial leech farm pump fresh cow blood into cow intestine to feed lots of leeches all at once, so you have to think where you can get fresh cow blood and their intestines)

Last but not least, let's say you are able to raise and keep tonnes of them at your backyard, another very pressing issue is how to prevent them from escaping or swarm on you while you are sleeping... (at least earthworms are vegetarian)

Furthermore, another main issue is, as you have asked, what species? Upon each leech training, you will most likely required to purchase breeders from your trainer, at a much higher price then RM60. Hence this is where their income from.

But as I mentioned earlier, if your friend was already leech farming, he might be better informed them I am, hence you should refer to him.

This post has been edited by rexis: Feb 22 2010, 04:50 PM

Hi, anyone know is malaysia having any mushroom sprawn supplier?
or where can i get a small quantity of the sprawn?
please help, thanks.

is this executive diploma programme still on?

what has happened to this agrobussiness ? If possible, please update us the necessary information.

thanks!

Hello to all agriprenuers,

Im currently growing Australian Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and have in stocked of around 8mT. About 24% is ranging from 500gm-700gm (marketable plate sized fish) and the rest ranges from 200-490gm. It is growned under a CRAS system and been fed with pallets. Fingerlings are imported direct from australia so i can assure you the best of its quality.

We sell them freshly chilled whole fish, Live, processed (gutted, gilled, scaled,), processed and individually frozen blast, and also packaged (vacuumed packed) under the brand AQ fish. All this with a opening price at RM23-25/Kg.

My question is, will the market accepts this product (in west M'sia/world) at the given price. If not any recommendation of its best selling price, considering the production costs? I know i should have gone into exporting them but where to? any suggestion/contacts/networks?

We have acchieved a production of 7mt/ month before and currently stocking in more and more so we would be achieving at least 8mT/month by next year, its a whole large scale production and its achievable. But i would like to secure buyers before we really set our mind to produce that much. Please any suggestion/help/interested buyers will be really helpful.

Thank you.

hi,

Our company are doing import/export on cows, sheeps but mostly Boer goats for breed and slaughter from Australia. We got several farms in Selangor.

Our company has grown rapidly since 2006. We have the support and cooperation from MARDI. In collaboration with MARDI, we have several times held the course about Boer goats. The purpose of this course is to provide guidance to more clearly so that participants better understand and learn all about goat care.

Anyway if anyone want to buy any do PM me. Besides breeding/slaughter, we also offer Aqiqah & Korban for Muslims

TQ