Today, at about 10 am I took the trouble to meet this guy who came from Johore Bahru, Johore.
He took his wife and a young kid to visit KL and call on me to discuss a bit about birdnest farming.
I was very pleased to spend about 2 hours with him and his wife at Mega Mall, Starbuck coffee house talking about birdnest farming.
His name was Mr Sulaiman.
His plan was to convert an agricultural land belongs to his wife family to Birdnest Farm.
I welcome him to KL and started my introduction about myself and how much I have been doing my work on birdnest farming.
It is very clear that since he is a Bumiputra or son of the soil, he is entitled to get a loan from either the bank or Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA). As far as I know there is a loan available for birdnest farming.
I told him that he shud firstly do a birdcall test on the piece of land and make sure he snap some photos indicating how many birds are responding to his test. He shud do at least three time at a different time of the day for at least one or two weeks.
Once that is done he can decide whether it is a good place with good source of birds or not.
I told him that if the number of birds responded is below 20 it is not that good but if there were 100 birds then this is a gold mine.
The nest step is to get the exact plan of the land and see how to develop the land for an agriculture project. I stressed to him that the piece of land shud be properly used to prepare for short terms and long terms plans for birdnest operation.
For short term he shud look at doing his birdhouse in combination with other activities like rearing of fish using fish cage.
If there are lots of extra land he can plant some of the recommended plants that can produce insects that are food to the swiftlets.
Trees like Lao Gondang (ara trees) and Lamparo is good to be grown around the birdhouse.
Other things that I stressed to him is that, nowadays with the sophisticated technology available your chances to be successfull is much higher then to fail in birdnest farming.
Most birds will come into your birdhouse as long as the house is well located, well designed and the sound system is well designed.
To add more to that, there are aroma that can attract these birds into your birdhouse.
Use them carefully and U can be successfull !!!
2 comments:
I would like to know how does the below trees like Lao Gondang (ara trees) and Lamparo is good to be grown around the birdhouse?
most of the traditional bird house was build in town area without those trees.
regards
knteo
knteo@plexus.com
Nyuk,
The idea of planting the two types of trees is subject to the availabilty of land. If U have a big land, agriland, then you can allocated certain part of the land to be planted with those trees.
If you convert a shop house then it will be difficult.
The idea of planting those plants are subjected to land availability.
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