may i know what topics will you discuss on during the meeting? is it ok for me to join if i don't have much to share? because i dont think i have much experience...i guess i'd be asking questions most of the time

This land I'm working on, Parcel 5 is in Sabah.

As with all business, everything is 'not easy'. If it were, then every1 would be doing it    I fully subscribe to the belief if you can solve 'the problem' by providing the best solution at the lowest cost, fastest time while making the recipient feels great, you'll have a good chance of making it successfully. Doing business was never easy, and never will.  just my 2sen. I guess this was one of the reason the TS started this 'Venturing into Agriculture & Aquaculture'

Vermicompost, I'm starting this for own use, hence no need to worry about the marketing at the moment. I'll gladly share with you guys when I do the marketing  My present short term goal is just to rehabilitate the land, at the same time doing a bit of recycling of waste material and learning (hopefully ) gaining some farming experience.

Food Waste, we also feed the chicken (Kampung) and dogs with these everyday. Meat waste are cooked, hence it takes care of the hygiene aspect. Fruits / vege are just given as is. The few Kampung chicken is having a feast of tapioca these few days as we are still clearing the Parcel 5. Of course the tapioca were offered to all our neighbors first and those remainder (small size / partially rotten) are given to the Chicken. Talking about tapioca, they can become quite a nuisance, as it difficult to rid them off. We are currently picking up all the branches (collecting into pile and dry it) and digging up the tapioca. Any1 has a better/faster option on how to go about this?

Got some results with the ants today, but i guess the result is just a short term thing as it's raining everyday, washing away the insecticide. Any suggestion on a long term solution?

Hey guys,

Do we have a method to procure land to start farming? An acre of land is costing RM 20k a piece.

I mean govt wants us to farm but if no land how to farm? I am not a Bumi btw.

Cheers

Kai

ants...i guess you have to rear its own natural predator...try google it...


because, according to the law of waste management, it is illegal to gather or assemble large amount of wastes without permission. that means we have to get a permit to do so. if it is avoidable or unnecessary, of course it will be much easier..so is this act of collecting wastes considered as an illegal one?

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Added on March 15, 2011, 9:32 pmoh, thanks TS!!

Hi kaiserwulf, not to sound rude, land in Malaysia can be bought/sold/leased/rented or even borrowed. Land can cost from a token sum of very minimal to very expensively high, depending on location. Yes every government throughout the world would like to increase food production because statistic is showing that we are running out of food. Also there is no law stating that all Farmers have to be Bumi in Malaysia. Sorry if I sound offensive, but if you spend more time, and think more on it, like other people can do it, not not you? Solution can be found, you can work around/over/above it. This apply in almost every aspect in life. I did visit MAHA 2011, there are a lot of non- Bumi winning competition in farming. If you are interested, i can post some pictures.

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Added on March 19, 2011, 6:20 pm

Anteater, Pangolin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin) is a protected species in Malaysia. Even if you manage to 'invite' one to stay at your farm, it'll go missing almost immediately as i heard the 'current rate' is that you can exchange a motorbike with it!. Am having a little success with 'ant powder' problem is that it's raining everyday and it washes the powder  away. There is a liquid type, by spraying, might try it out.

Maybe naming it with 'recycling center' you'll have better 'luck' over waste management? 

Say planting corn is easy.

4 days later

Mr. Farmer, no offense taken at all. I am targeting land on southern Kedah. Purchase would be the best deal, bar the price. It is just there has been hearsay on govt giving out land for youths to work on. At the moment, my funds are routed for another biz, hopefully from the biz I can generate enough to buy those plots of land.

I think I will visit your farm first before clearing the bought land by then. Would love to have your contact details. PM me! We can be friends.

Free-handout land to own: Quite impossible

Free-handout land to work: Likely

Handout land to rent: Abounding
I think I've noted this before somewhere. There's this very enterprising group of guys who go about leasing land from government agencies or GLCs. The rental is usually dirt cheap, like RM50/acre a year. Some of the likes are Rubber Research, TNB etc. Try spotting for agencies that are supposed to relocate to a new plot of land, but would only do so after a couple of years (when the funding is finalized). Or, lease the land under TNB cables to plant short term crops. There's this chap in Teluk Intan who leased the entire stretch of land under TNB cables from Simpang Empat all the way to Bagan Nakhoda, and he planted banana for 3 years, followed by sugarcane, and then banana again. He's doing pretty well.

These are my 3 Specimen for my World Eco Products

Papaya A


Papaya B


Papaya C

Care to elaborate on your specimen A, B & C? Thanks