Showing posts with label BioSecurity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BioSecurity. Show all posts

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Hass Avocado

 
Hass Avocado, need no introduction. It's the King of Avocado. 95% of the global commercially planted Avocado is Hass.

Hass had some other big advantages over other avocado. The trees grow vigorously, are easy to propagate and produce an impressive amount of fruit by only the second or third season. They have a longer harvest season than other avocados and, perhaps most importantly, the Hass's thicker skin makes it superior to handle and ship long distances.

Hass avocados have a pebbly skin that ripens from green to deep purple or nearly black, and they can vary in size from 140 gm to 340 gm. Although the skin is thick, it is relatively easy to peel. The flesh closest to the skin is pale green, and as it nears the medium-sized central stone it develops a yellow undertone. The flesh is soft, creamy, and barely fibrous, with good oil content. The flavor is rich and nutty with a slightly sweet finish.

The Hass avocado tree is a desirable fast-growing tree that produces high-quality, rough-skinned fruit with a long shelf life. Hass avocado trees are medium, spreading, evergreen trees that reaches 12 M in height and 11 M wide.

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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Durian Trees Challenge, Rhizoctonia Solani, Organic treatment.



Just concluded our trial for Durian trees with Rhizoctonia Solani with great success. We want to inspire other planters that now it's year 2018, we can do organic planting, easily, safely and economically then before.

 This farm is located in Ulu Langat, Selangor and belong to a friend of mine, Ghazali. Since he wanted an organic treatment and me want to promote organic planting, we got together and decided to test it out in 5 of his Durian trees.



Our goal was to treat the durian trees of Rhizoctonia Solani (Hawar Daun) which had infected the whole farm severely. Some trees are killed, some are stunned and not growing. We want to make them healthy again and make them start growing.



Organic products that we used were

1) AgroSol, Pure Plant Energy to enhance photosynthesis, so as to induce new growth and improve overall health of the tree from leafs to roots.

2) BioRichField, Feeding the Soil to Feed the Plant. A compost based bio-fertilizer enrich and inoculated with high efficacy microbes, fungi and food for the microbes. Complimented with Mycorrhiza Fungi and Nano Gel technology.

3) Ken Bio Defender, a microbe based technology. These microbes shall resides in the soil and roots to fend off bacteria wilt.

We started our trial on 10th October 2017 and we set a time line of 3 months.We felt that 3 months is a good time line as initial feedback from planters is that even if we were to succeed in organic, it shall takes too long a time. We actually started getting favorable results ahead of our dateline.

Our approach is pretty simple, repeatable and upscale-able in farm by normal farm hands. We dig a small trench along the drip line on the higher ground. We used approximately 3 kg of BioRichfields. We cover back with the original soil. The reason is that we want to create a richer organic matter to house the good microbes and also to have contact of the BioRichfield with the roots. This is important for the Mycorrhiza Fungi. With the cover up, we are also protecting the microbes from strong UV light and to create adequate heat. We further re-in-force with Ken Bio Defender to specifically target the Rhizoctonia Solani through absorption by the roots. 9 gm of Bio Defender was mixed with 6 liters of clean water and drench around the trunk of the tree.


We treat the tree with AgroSol so as to induce higher photosynthesis to produce more energy for the tree to recover and grow.This is a holistic approach as we target the Rhizoctonia and address the need for growth. This seems to work very well as a combination.

Response was rather fast due to the effect of AgroSol. We see new buds appearing starting from week 3. This increase in photosynthesis also results in higher uptake of nutrients that we had made
available for the tree's use.

These are the condition of the leaves at the start of the trial. Most were heavily infested. We can only treat and make the new leaves healthy and suppress the old leaves from spreading the
Rhizoctonia.

























These are the leaves at the moment and with this we officially ends the trial. Yes we can do organic farming, easily, safely and economically. If you are not doing it for yourself, please do it for our next generation.

I am extremely satisfied with this challenge because it's so inspiring  and now there is at least another organic planter in Malaysia. Thank you.




#AgrosolAmbassador
#Agrosol #Organic #Natural #BeeFriendly #PurePlantEnergy
Tested in Malaysia for #AvocadoFriendly #GrapeFriendly #DurianFriendly#MangoFriendly #RockmelonFriendly #PapayaFriendly #TurfFriendly #FigFriendly#BlueButterFlyPeaFriendly #BananaFriendly #ChilliFriendly #LettuceFriendly#BrinjalFriendly #GuavaFriendly #MexicanMintFriendly #BayLeavesFriendly#DuanSalamFriendly
#RicHFieldAmbassador
#BioRicharAmbassador
#LetsGoOrganic
#CircularEconomy

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Farm Biosecurity

Was doing so field work in Sabah and had the opportunity of meeting some people in Ministry Of Agriculture. This topic Biosecurity pops up we had a short discussion on this.

What is Biosecurity (Farm)?
 Biosecurity is the management of risks to the economy, the environment, and the community, of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading.
We as a farmer, it is our responsibility to 
set up measures designed not only to protect our property from the entry and spread of pests, diseases and weeds but also spreading these to our neighbors.. Farm biosecurity is our responsibility, and that of every person visiting or working on your property.

If a new pest or disease becomes established on your farm, it will affect your business through increased costs (for monitoring, production practices, additional chemical use and labour), reduced productivity (in yield and/or quality) or loss of markets. Early detection and immediate reporting of an exotic pest or disease increases the chance of effective and efficient eradication.




Management of Biosecurity risk had always been in place and MOA had taken the initiative to tighten and enforce these measures. We had been shown items that had been confiscated and had starting to quarantine the whole farm, pending investigation. 

Govt taking stringent steps to prevent entry of diseased produce

Had time to drop by Sabah Tea garden form a break. Had Tea, Fritters and Ice cream.

It feels good to be back in the field.
#TreatTheSoil #BioSecurity