Yo guys, I'd like to join the farming enthusiast club. Planting chili on fertigation early Dec and we're ready to harvest early March. If u guys need any information on chili fertigation, feel free to ask. I'd like to help out if I can.

Hi guys,

I've been planning on setting up a chillis farm. and now am searching for some stuff.
Anyone know the cheapest price for these stuffs and where can i get them?

1. dripper
2. sabut kelapa
3. baja a+b
4. jaring hitam (paranet?)
5. black poly bag

help will be much appreciated. thank you guys

I am thinking to jump to Agriculture field.

Which vege / fruit do I need to start for noob ?

I've searched on internet, many of them suggest for ladyfinger (bendi). Easy to manage and high demands.

Anyone has other different ideas / opinions ?

I am planning to replant my 5 acres oil palm to durian. While waiting for the durian tree to grow. I also plan to have the short term chops

Less than 1 year
1. Banana.
2. Papaya.

3-4 years
1. Limau
2. Ciku

May I know if there is any others short term chops that is available?

The main concern is no water run thru my farm.

Well hello there fellow durian farmer. I have 4.7 acres of land in Tapah, Perak Jln Cameron Highlands. Its basically an unkept dusun. I plan to start planting 110 durian trees combined of D200, D197, D168, D24 and durian kampung. Now land clearing.

What i can advice is drill a tube well for water source. U need to remove all the sawit trees prior bcos the durian saplings will lose out to the sawit trees (sawit trees sucks a lot of nutrients/fertilizer from the soil). They are hungry trees those sawits.

As for short term crops for cash flow my friend plants papaya in his sawit farm. Not beside the sawit trees but a dedicated area cleared for sawit. The issue now is wild boars and diseases. Wild boar u need to dig a trench and fill it with water. Beside the trench pile the sawit tandan, leaves that acts as a 2nd barrier against the wild boars. Ur papaya area shall be square shape with the trench along it.

U need to find resistant papaya seedling bcos papaya normallly prone to fusarium wilt and other type of fungus/viruses. Go to MARDI for the papaya seedling.

Send ur soil for a soil test, some sawit farms have masam soil, not good for durian.

Dont listen to other people laa. These folks dont know anything about farming. Let the pros talk maa.

Dear all, do you have any experience in renting land?, having quite a PITA problem here

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

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

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?

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.

"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. 😁

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.

anyone venturing into Gaharu before? it looks like good price, and average at 5 years. But I am looking for issues/problems I may face. Anyone?

I got partner with a friend, he got about 3 acres of land at Karak. Looking forward for that.

Hi everyone,

I am trying to plant (still unsure what!) on my small farm in Pinang Tunggal, Kedah. Rented out this 1acre of land  to a vege farmer and he was very reluctant to return it to me.

Finally, he agreed but I am currently facing this issue;

A. Finding a land surveyor to pin point the exact location of my land as there are more than 20 lots at the site. I failed to locate the demarcation stones now.

B. What item, fruits or vege to plant?

I am sorry to ask this seem to be noob questions. I am interested to plant since he agrees to return the land but hitting bumps along the way.

Any advice would really be appreciated as when I asked some farmers, they told me many negative comments such as;

A. Don’t waste yr time since it is such a small plot
B. Hard to find source of water. (I am thinking of getting tubing water from the ground

Thank you for reading my post.

Kok Yuen

Hi,

Thank you for replying to my queries.

I am a tutor. So it seems not worth getting into planting as the plot too small? Wild you know the fees of getting the boundary pegged?

Once again, thanks so much for taking the trouble to answer my noob questions. My business is not so great now, that’ s why thinking’s of doing some planting to supplement my income. Now, only works a few hours for a few days at night,

  honestly, if I got money, I surely get from your hand...

looking to make use of some land to do an orchard (5ha) and side crops (3ha).

is there any recommendation on consultants or experienced contractors who I can discuss further on the planing ? ie type of crops to rotate, planting distance between trees and the layout of the orchard and farm.

thanks, I'm in Sarawak and actually approached the Ministry of Modernization of Agriculture (state) like 10+ years ago to buy dwarf Coconut, Rambutan and Durian Tree ... picked up myself from their nursery and these are supposed to come with good traits. End up fruiting few years later than normal and the fruit basically sucks. Worse than wild type that I sourced myself from kampung area.

I will give MARDI a try this time.

It's a sizeable parcel of land but I'm only planing to use 10ha, some parts undulating, some flat, some hilly situated next to river and small stream running through.