Kenny Ng / Date: 10-Mar-08
Major activities
- Learning trip to Loh’s Organic Farm, Semenyih and rewards trip to Genting Theme Park and KL downtown for 3 workers on 26th – 28th Feb. For the workers, this was their 1st trip to KL.
- Did marketing with the help from CETDEM, to few wholesalers in KL/PJ/Subang areas.
Lo-light
- A few direct customers cancelled order during Chinese New Year. Left over some vegetables and could not sell at that time.
- Vinegar chili not sellable, probably not tasty enough. Aborted.
- Long bean (snake type) and French bean yield were low, compared to previous harvest.
Hi-light
- Started making Roselle jam, syrup and pickle for sales, however only in small quantity.
- Close to 100kg of ginger was sold, with the help from CETDEM, to a few wholesalers, and at good price too.
- There is market demand, based on few inquiries from wholesalers and retailers in the month of Feb. However, farm produce could not meet their demand yet.
- Feb. output increased to 523kg, however ginger contributed close to 100kg. Leafy vegetables output increased by 100%, from 74kg (Jan) to 155kg(Feb).
Problems
- 2 customers feedback that sawi not lasting on the last week of Feb. Sorry, it was too wet when harvesting; and too wet when delivered to customers.
Accomplishments
- nil
Output (Target is 1000kg by end of 2008; to be financially sustainable)
Sep 07 – 150kg
Oct 07 – 224kg
Nov 07 – 141kg
Dec 07 – 340kg
Jan 08 – 351kg
Feb 08 – 523kg
“It is not that organic grown vegetables and fruits are expensive; rather, it is the conventionally grown produce that is unreasonably cheap- because they are subsidised by the stolen resources from our future generations!”
……Thanks for buying & eating organically grown produce and preserving our Earth.
