Tuesday, January 27, 2009

BIla aku melayan facebook, dapat tengok muka adik-adik di penn state sane berlonggok sesama Melayu..tetiba aku teringat pesan Bro. Djafer masa seminar Musim Luruh MISNA di Cornell dulu. Katanya, kita ini ummah Islam, bukan ummah Melayu. Jadi pecahkan lingkungan sosial hingga menjangkaui di luar ruang lingkup Melayu. Aduhhh, terasa sungguh aku bila terkena perlian macam tu. Nadanya bersahaja tapi penuh makna.

Imaam Djafer ni Muslim Chaplain di Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY. Hebat ceramah dia, hebat lagi karakter dia. Selalu juga selisih dengan dia di masjid Al Hikmah di Troy kalau aku menginap kat rumah Chot di 15th Street.

Anyway, I didn't do much today except for surveying land for my agriculture project in Meru and Bukit Kapar area. The rental is very cheap there. I was totally surprise! Maybe it's due to my brief friendship with the Tok Penghulu in that area. Well, no harm in making friends with people anywhere and anytime, kan?

So I came back to my costing to prepare for our agriculture entrepreneurial adventure. I've got stock of 11 acres in total. That does not include the land offered by my friend's mom in Banting. So I've got to evaluate her offer as well.

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The plan initially was to grow chilli fertigation style. The drawback is the exorbitant cost on setting up the fertigation system. Especially for beginner like myself. Then I had discussion with one guy who worked part time on his own small banana farm and I found out the profit yields from the farm is quite considerable and the cost is relatively low. I did some math and I figured out we shall start to accumulate cash in the company to the millionth by the 4th year if we keep increasing the land by 3 acres per year to grow banana! And so does chilli.

So I guess we now shall combine between banana and chilli semi fertigation style. The bad news is it requires us to come up with costly paid up capital. I guess it's around RM 150,000. That is plus 10% for contingency plan.

Mungkin boleh difikir-fikirkan. Kalau mengikut tanah tadi, 2 teres untuk cili merah dan 2 teres untuk cili padi. Kalau ada 4500 pokok untuk cili merah dan 4500 pokok untuk cili padi...mungkin berbaloi. Mungkin lah.

Sekarang, aku dah tak mampu fikir apa-apa. Cuma pisang dan cili..yang terbaru ialah tembikai. Haihhhhh...

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