The Avocado Story by AvocadoBoy

 Thank you for letting me talk about my Avocado Journey. Looking back, at 2010 when I came into contact with Avocado in Sabah. I took a deeper dive into Avocado after failing in Rubber trees, prices dropped till RM $1.00 / kg. Started to plant local hybrids and Hass from seeds. Ran out of funds and have to came back to Peninsular 2016. Continued advocating Avocado while hustling for a living. Went into MLM, employment and also drove for GRAB. Went back into Agriculture with helps from friends and started being Brand Ambassador / Promoter in fertilizers and Plant Nutrient.

By the grace of God, a venue was made available for Avocado planting in Bangi. My deepest gratitude to Bangi Farm Resort.
 

The 1st Avocado tree was planted end September 2017. It was a slow start, from a Six trees Avocado farm.

We started to collect any varieties that we can lay our hands on. Local as well as imported. Took scions from friends / some bought and started grafting.

It also took us a while to sort out the soil conditions here for the trees to thrive. Lots of failures , trials and errors. These covered the whole aspects from seedlings to tree.

Fast forward, 4 years down the road, 2021
Bangi Farm Resort had been converted into an Ecco Tourism destination, covering not only plants, but live stock. Complimenting our working partners , Bangi Farm Resort is a showcase of a complete ecological system for Food security. Farm to Fork, Fork to Farm and Beyond. We had introduced the Black Soldier Fly to Up-cycle organic food waste and plug it back to our ecco-system, giving it a more Green, more Sustainable , more Cleaner and reduce our Carbon Foot print. 
Some of our Milestones in Avocado are

Setting up Avocado Repository in conjunction with Avocado Lovers Malaysia.

A venue for Avocado Lovers Malaysia Facebook group

Avocado information and Consultancy. From planting to Processing both Commercial and hobbyist.

Avocado Sapling provider, both Commercial and hobbyist. Fulfilment by AvocadoBoy, in conjunction with my Principle was the 1st in providing a low cost entry level for Avocado planting.

Avocado Child Care, both Commercial and hobbyist. First #1st in providing care of Avocado trees for an agreed numbers of months / years

Current on going preparation for this year 2021

Preparing to increase Avocado trees by 200 trees. Planting starting in August,
Creating AvocadoBoy branding
Increase Avocado Varieties.

Future Projects
Developing Seeds  for Rootstock from Avocado trees that is suitable for planting in Malaysia.

Do kindly stay tune and keep track of our progress. Thank you.