Hey guys,

I have question about jobs available in agriculture. I recently graduated with an Agronomy degree from USA. What are the prospects in the field? I tried KLK, Sime Darby, but there are no openings in their plantation department. Any idea which companies I could try applying to?

Hey guys,

My friend and I are interested in venturing into Ag business mainly fruits and vegetables. Couple of questions:

1) We just graduated, in our early 20s. How can we actually get started in Ag nowadays? We have a full-time job. I am in Oil Palm Plantation; he is in Ag chemicals. Should we go full time or part time into Ag? What is the starting capital? We plan to go all Ag soon if our farm is established.
2) We plan to do integration for fruit or vegetables. Intercropping while waiting for main crop. For newbs like us, which is a better choice, fruit or vegetables? Considering we do not have any land and we would most probably start small, approx. 3-4 ac of land.
3) Any of the seniors here are willing to show us your farm and give us some advice? We can drive to your farm for the visit. Or maybe spare us some land not in cultivation for our trial and error.

We're very serious in venturing into Ag. Hopefully I can get some good response from the seniors.

Thank you very much.

So far, we're trying to learn what we can. But I think it's best to visit farms or talk to experienced farmers and learn their management systems. We're willing to travel even if it's not in our vicinity.

Is it hard to get government funding for our Ag business? We will do a proper business plan or any preparations needed.

Are you in Sabah all the time? Will you be coming to Peninsular?

Heya Mr. Para,

We just recently graduated. We both studied Agronomy. Yea, we plan to work for a few years before entering the ag business entirely. But at the moment, maybe we could do some part-time farming for trial and error and to learn more. My friend have been visiting farms because he's working in the ag chemical field. I am in the oil palm agronomy and research now. But with the high land prices, we couldn't catch up by just saving our money for the capital. Do you know where can we get funding or any other solution?

We're both in KL/PJ area. Would love to meet with you guys. It's always good to do connections.

This post has been edited by xeroxphan: Nov 29 2013, 04:37 PM

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.

Yes this is my first batch. I'm new to chili planting but not agriculture. I took agronomy in college. So far we do have a couple of suppliers we can sell to, a local guy and also to Selayang. Fingers cross, this is our biggest planting yet, with the current price, we expect to be profitable, given that we meet our production of at least 2kg per plant.

Yo, wouldn't say I am successful, yet. Challenges occur at different stages of the planting. So far, we only have some small pest and disease issues. And because we are in a partnership, we do bound to have some disagreements. But nothing serious so far.

We source it from a nearby pond.

We do not treat the water, but we filter it. We occasionally flush the pipes to unclog it. As for PnD management, we spray top down with knapsack. The fertigation is only for fertilizer and irrigation. We do have some antracnose issues.

Hello sifus,

Any idea how can i recruit some part timers to work in the farm plucking chillies?

Just temporary job (probably a month), doesn't matter local kampung people or foreigner, as long as they are hardworking and meet our daily quota.

Good idea. Thanks..

Hello,

We're using fertigation system. Currently we have around 7000 plants on 1.8 acres of land. Our previous planting we had 10k plants on 1.8 acres. We harvested for 2.5 months, we got round 2.5 kg per plant during that duration. That was only the first cycle. You can harvest for up to 9 months if your plants are healthy. However, we had virus issue and we replanted. 4-5 kg per plant 2-3 cycles is not a problem.