Treats and Treatments to our prawn

After attending the seminar, here is my conclusions:

• Always aware of your pond health eg. pH, alkalinity, salinity, dissolved oxigen...
• Treat the pond longer before stock for better survival rate of your PL
• Treat the ponds with antivirus and antibacteria
• Make sure the water source is clean and maintain the cleanliness and hygiene throughout your activities
• Prepare for the worst
• Treat the water periodically and systematically
• Learn from the experts and do not shy to ask any question
• Learn and identify your enemy
  

Happy farming of your udang galah / freshwater prawns!

FREE SEMINAR (PERCUMA)

Free Seminar to all the Growers by Bayer Co., below are the details, datang beramai-ramai, knowledge is important to stay competitive:

Speaker & Topics:

1. Dr. Pornlerd Chanratchakool- Shrimp Pond Management How to Maintain Good Water and Soil
2. Dr.Jirasak Tangtrongpiros- Shrimp Disease How We Can Prevent This?
3. Tavatchai Chidchomsrichantra-The Dream Team for Shrimp Pond & Disease Management

• Seminar #1
• Date: 20th July 2009
• Seminar Location: Sg. Petani ,Kedah
• Venue: Emerald Puteri Hotel, Sg. Petani
• Time:9.00 am - 12.00pm (Registration opens at 8.30 am)
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• Seminar #2
• Date: 22nd July 2009
• Seminar Location: Setiawan, Perak
• Venue: Orient Star Hotel, Lumut, Perak
• Time: 9.00-12.00pm (Registration opens at 8.30 am)
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• Seminar # 3
• Date: 24th July 2009
• Seminar Location: Johor Bahru, Johor
• Venue: Ponderosa Golf & Country Club, Johor Bahru
• Time: 9.00 am-12.00 pm (Registration opens at 8.30 am)
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• To RSVP and for more info, please contact :-
• Sugania Vijayan 012-3276737
• Erin Tan 0173388816
• Kok Onn 0162125160
• Chiow Yen 012-3655308

Update on my prawn

here couple of pictures of my son and daughter holding 20-30gram of healthy freshwater prawn, fish from our pond in Mersing, enjoy..

Pond Sizes

It been a while since I wrote here..its been very busy with the kids holidays and trying to make all my business plan a reality..

By the way, here some tips especially for the wannabe freshwater prawn grower :

1. Pond size - medium 50m x 50m or 30m x 60m, easier for harvesting
   
2. dept - water depth 2-4ft
3. bund - please allow 2-4ft above the water level
4. bund sides - 25 to 45 degree angle, easier when harvesting and cleaning
5. water outlet - 8 inch diameter UPVC pipes at the lowest point
6. water inlet - 6 inch diameter UPVC pipes with some filters
7. Main water channel/drain must provide enough volume for rainy season
8. Allow 5-10 ft wide of common shared bunds - when the pond is side by side - for failsafe design and easy for you to manuver around your ponds
9. lastly, please think of how you can channel your inlet water, either using pumps or gravity flow using dam/(empangan).

Please do not hesitate to email me if you have any question/soalan related to this topics...

I might change some of my udang galah business plan due to time factors and other business opportunity coming my way..but I will proceed with my existing ventures and will always write here in my blog..

Venture Capital for start up farm

the second most FAQ is venture capital, how we could come up with sufficient money to develop our udang galah business/ponds..

main source of venture capital would be from:

1. own savings
2. partnership
3. bank loans
4. selling your properties

my point of view are we should derive all the venture capital from our own source eg. savings, personal loan, because banks would not finance a start up, especially agriculture/aquaculture business (tried and simply rejected) even you have a good paperwork and some collateral.

please start small and record everything you spent/earn from the business by doing all your transaction by cheque, let the records show good income and profits/surplus, then, go apply for micro credit scheme!.

please check out my earlier post on locations and major points to consider when you decided to start up a freshwater prawn grow out business ..

Update on our new start up farm

its been awhile since i update progress on my udang galah business ventures...for a month now i have tried to secure a land in Negeri Sembilan for my mid term goal and its was tiring but INTERESTING...the deal is advancing as plan and hopefully i will secure the land before August....start-up capital partly from my savings and most of it from bank loan...

i am very grateful to God...the land got great water source, a bit far but still have a good access (potholes also got lah) no electricity but very near to last TNB pole...10 minutes to highway and 20 minutes to the nearest town...last 2 weeks i was at the land doing some clearing of scrubs and making good of the access....

what more to say, we will be having 8 of 50m x 50m freshwater prawn ponds, and hopefully we will first harvest lots of big fat prawn/shrimp by early next year....wish me luck

location selection for udang galah farm

As I promised, here are some tips of how to select a good location to start a freshwater prawn pond

1. near to your most demanding customer/market
2. clean clear sustainable water source
3. electricity
4. access road
5. type of soil
6. surroundings community
7. lease or buy?

i would elaborate more on each points soonest...think about you are changing to a new job place, at a new location...its somehow just a common sense..

here the link to the major topics that we are going to discuss of this mini series