Kenny Ng / Date: 09-June-08
Major activities
- Hosted the following groups for Farm/Eco tours.
18th-19th – 30 pax , from KL Canton Association
24th-25th – 10 pax , organized by CETDEM
29th-30th – 12 pax, from KL.
Lo-light
- Price of goat dung and rice bran increased by 33% and 50% respectively. For other items like hardware and maintenance parts, the price has also increased significantly.
- Getting lesser Ipoh customers than in the previous months.
- All cucumber plants dried off after bearing only a few fruits. Have not been successful in planting the cucumber yet, after 3rd attempt.
- The yield of French-beans, from the new batch was also low.
- Not many varieties of non-leafy vegetables were produced except for lady’s fingers and long beans.
- Papaya output dropped by half. The matured plants produced less than before and the young ones were not yet bearing ripe fruits.
Hi-light
- Getting more direct customers from Kampar, Tapah, Bukit Mertajam and Butterworth.
- Applied Kuntan (smoked rice husks) to papaya trees. The potash can harden the papaya skin and hence prevent it from the fruit flies sting, as advised by a friend. Awaiting to see the results.
- The Siew Pak Choy size was bigger than the previous month. It implies that the previous month reported smaller size was not due to the type of seeds used but because of the soil fertility.
- A few Pineapple plants started to bear fruits, these were planted last Aug.
- Planted a hundred more Pineapple plants.
- May output is 573kg, 33kg more than April output.
- The eco-farm tours helped for the month of May, financially.
Problems
- The rat pest was still a problem, they continue eating up the groundnuts before I could harvest and some papaya too.
Accomplishments
- nil
Output (Target is 1000kg by end of 2008; to be financially sustainable)
| Sep 07 – 150kg | Jan 08 – 351kg | May 08 – 573kg |
| Oct 07 – 224kg | Feb 08 – 523kg | |
| Nov 07 – 141kg | Mar 08 – 513kg | |
| Dec 07 – 340kg | Apr 08 – 540kg |
“The Garden of Eden is not forever lost. The secret to its revival lies buried no deeper than the first few inches of your soil”
from the book of Secrets Of The Soil
