amir, is serai lemongrass? even the price of the plant itself raised a lot. lemon grass drink is now spreading wide in the market...are they difficult to cultivate? how long is it from the harvest?hehe...i can google it but experience from you would be more useful i guess

Thank Michael,
Not too worried about marketing at the moment as I'm just on an experimental stage and my produce is very minimal (most are not maturing yet). We have ready reseller requesting to buy as our farm is located in front of the access road to 4 more farms Talk about location. We have buyers from the village market, town market and also buyers who buy and send down to Kota Kinabalu. Am also contacting buyers who claim to offer 'higher prices' but wants quality products for the Brunei market.
On the bath-tub pond, I shall re-work like building a roof to lower the water temperature, check if I can increase the water flow (free mountain water by gravity feed). Hopefully the shall also help on the temperature & the biological load. By the way, discussing this with you actually got me thinking that I could re-route the overflow water to run through the small slope of our Yam patch. Those Yam at the top of the slope is growing slower that those growing next to the creek. I think most probably due to water shortage. Also I could most probably increase the land size of the Yam patch to near the water run off. Work on this as soon as I'm back at the farm.

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Added on July 29, 2011, 8:24 pmAs far as I know, Serai does not need much maintenance. We planted ours by just making a hole about 1X1 ft 6ft apart and planted a few strand 3 months ago. Did weeding twice and fertilize once. If I remember correctly when we planted, it was about $0.50 per kilo.

Better go check on the Gaharu, here we have people even stealing rubber trees clone. You'll need to do some maintenance otherwise weeds shall grow taller than the trees (vine type) and deprive the Gaharu of sun light. You have workers staying on site?

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Added on July 29, 2011, 8:29 pmHi Chenyin, Yes Serai =Lemongrass. I didn't know that you can make drinks out of it. It's suppose to be easy to cultivate, with not much care required. Make a hole, plant 3 ~ 5 strands, water for the first week, harvest ~ 8 months latter. Keep some for replanting.
Say what sort of current market price are we looking at?

This post has been edited by MrFarmer: Jul 29 2011, 08:29 PM

yeap instant lemongrass drink now in market...i'v tasted before, not bad. good for health too. cosway is selling them, i guess other similar franchises are selling them too

Mr Farmer:

Good idea to reroute it to the yam patch. Fish pond water is rather nutrient rich.

yam drink you mean? wonder how would it taste

To Para :

Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms



This post has been edited by kianwei8: Aug 2 2011, 01:31 AM

Para :

Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms

Thanks, Kian Wei. Very good visual guide.

In relation to Para's photos, you can see that it matches the "disease" example.


Anyway, Kian Wei, are you still with Dow?

Kian Wei is with Twin Arrow Fertilizer

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Added on August 2, 2011, 8:48 amthanks Kian Wei on the visual guide

This post has been edited by ParaOpticaL: Aug 2 2011, 08:48 AM

Ah, super.

It used to be RM2 per kilo. Can't believe the price drop to 50 cents per kilo. Unbelievable.

No I dont have any workers. I used to pay this Indonesian guy to do maintenance but decided not to hire him anymore because of the pay he demanded. Definitely have to do a lot of work or invest a lot of money to clear the land

This post has been edited by amirbashah: Aug 3 2011, 02:33 PM

eh, the price dropped? i thought i rmb my mom complained the rise in price..i go check with her again

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Added on August 8, 2011, 2:15 pmhaha...it's spring onion..not lemon grass..but s.onion's price has dropped now.

This post has been edited by chinyen: Aug 8 2011, 02:15 PM

Para & Michael, you are Welcome !
have been long time unactive at this forum

ya ,i with Twin Arrow fertilizer now , busy here and there to serve Farmer

After quite sometime, finally manage to properly get stable output from my vermicompost. Now is to find people that are interested in vermicompost..

Also saw some talks on aquaculture, so started raring some soon hook. So far have no issue with water, just need to tackle on what to feed those lazy fish

Hi Quackpack, maybe can write a How To / Guide to vermicompost? It'll be useful for all of us.

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Added on August 13, 2011, 8:48 pmOur Serai, after a couple of months, with no maintenance and no fertilizing, only some weeding.

Also just to share, Gaharu plant-lets, we have people selling for $4.00 per plant here, about 10" tall.

This post has been edited by MrFarmer: Aug 13 2011, 08:48 PM

hi...interested with vermicompost....with what do you feed them?

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Added on August 15, 2011, 10:50 pmanyone here can enlighten me on gluten free flour in Malaysian market now?

This post has been edited by chinyen: Aug 15 2011, 10:50 PM

hi chinyen,

sorry i missed your post earlier. i dont supply gluten free flour

i am distributing Fertilizers. if you would like to understand about them or maybe solve some of your problems if you are having a farm, please dont hesitate to PM me.

what are you planting right now at your farm ?

anyones know the market price for earthworm, cricket and breadworm??

pertanian = perniagaan = $$$
plan to do some agriculture business, planting / breeding fish in 1-2 years ahead

Trial Farm

JackFruit Farm @ Batang Benar.


New leaf size are bigger as compared to the older leaves as vouched by the caretaker and the Jab. Pertanian Officer



The 'tangkai' of the new fruits are thicker on this tree when compared to those that were not using the product