Upstairs Birdhouse And Downstairs Rearing Red Worms !!!

While having a "Laksa" in Sungai Patani, Kedah I saw this new shop across the street with a huge signboard "Kulim AgroTech".

The advertisement board shows lots of red worms.

In the beginning I thought this is something weired but after the simple lunch I walked into the shop and start asking a few questions.

Hmm ......

After listening to the Officer in Charged I keep thinking how to inject this worm breeding business along side our favourite swiftlet farming.

The idea that come to my mind was having this breeding at the ground floor while the swiftlet farming on the upper floors.

As we are well aware, you are not allowed to convert your lower floor to swiftlet farming. If you do not have any tenant for it, then how can you maximise the use of the empty floor(s)?

I suggest the breeding of red worms.

The income generated was something that I was taken back. You can get income as early as 3 months. Compare to swiftlet farming, you might take 2-3 years to start making some income.

So why don't you combine the two as your way of moving forward.

Short term income from red worms breeding while your long term income is swiftlet farming.

Minimum cost is about 1,000 ringgit. The worms will normally multiply by 82 times a year. Yes if you start with 100 worms, it will multiplied to 8,200 worms after 12 months.

The income actually comes from the sales of the worms shits, the worm itself and the worm water. If you are the business minded person you can actually add your income by conducting worm breeding seminars, training and perhaps selling those worm feeds.

All you need are some containers, their feed, some racks and water to regularly spray onto the feed. Space is already ready below those swiftlet's farms.

This agrotech company have their own formulation of the feed. They use goat's shits plus sawdusts and soil.

The income they forcasted is very interesting and you should consider doing some research on this new business. Go to google and search "worm farming". There are many vedio clips of this business on "you tube" too.

Yes consider doing it to supplement your swiftlet farming operation at least for the first 3 years. Once your BH is giving you the right income, you can quit the worm farming.

I will try to write a bit more about this new line from time to time.

The idea is to help newbies to start earning from the first month of their combined operations.