hello all sifu, need some advise here.
My family owns a piece of orchard that is currently planted with durian and some rambutan, langsat etc fruit trees. Supposedly the durians are matured enough for harvest but the price is not really good and quantity is not large enough to do anything large scale.
Hence the land has been left unattended for quite some time now (fruit trees are still there)

Since I've been working in KL and the land is up north, I was thinking to earn some side income by cultivating crops that doesn't require a lot of attention (especially dealing with disease because I don't have agricultural knowledge)

Any suggestion what crops I can inter-cultivate along side all existing fruit trees? The land is part hilly and part flat. There is a natural stream water that I can tap. Land size approximately 5 acre. Ideally only needs to visit like once a month or less

I was thinking papaya + chilly?

Pls suggest and advise...

thanks in advance.

Hi Farmer,

Thanks for replying.
The land still belongs to my father but it was left unattended for quite some years already.
All the fruit trees are still there but at the same time so are the wild grass/trees.
I guess durian doesn't work out because of few reasons
1) Half of the planted ones are not famous type (D24, Musang King etc) but they taste good though.
2) Comes durian season, everyone is selling at same time lead to glut. Unless the fruits were brought somewhere else...at least that's what my father said

Currently it incur no cost but no income too...

I'm thinking to clear some land from the wild (keeping the fruit trees) and plant it with something that is quick (6month - 1 year) to harvest, less attention needed (not much diseases, easy to attend, easy to survive etc), not necessary high value but should be enough to make some profit, and not much facility investment needed because I'm fairly new with this whole farming thing hence don't want to invest too much on facility until i get a hold of it.
So greenhouse thingy no go for me cause I think the investment will be quite substantial.
Please don't scold me if this sounds like I'm hoping for trees that grow money....lol!

I'll be willing to spend money to hire kampung folk to help do the ground work which will eat into my profit.
But I guess getting something is better than getting nothing, right.

Any suggestion where I can get more information? Been looking at the malaysia agri website but it's quite confusing....

Thanks!