RamdomChances

about 200 truck's

Truck usually carry about 4 cubic meter of earth, so about 200 truck's would be right (800 m cubed) The price will depend on the quality of the earth and the distance thay have to travel, ask if they supply the tractor for leveling as well

Here's some pic's of the flooding in Nakhon Sawan, this does more or less happen every year BTW

Nice new house, so much for building on stilts

This is the U-turn raod under the bridge

^ don't you need to flood the paddy as some point ? By my reconing to raise 13 rai by just 1cm would take 208 cubic meters of water, just don't think it wold be possible with a bore, it would have to be pumping 24hrs a day.

Oh I think you should do a post on rice farming as we have'nt got much on it

Hi Ed

I'm not really sure of the viability of irrigating 13 rai of rice with a borehole, mostly they they irrigate rice paddy from canals or rivers.

As for drilling companies your probaly better to ask around localy, find out if other people have one and who drilled it and start from there. The chances are if no one has one then it's for a reason.

Oh congrats on the marrage

I've moved this over to the farming forum, if you want it moved back just let me know. Theres a link for mushroom's in the links section here.

To be honest mate I have no idea, not really sure that your idea is that viable

^ Pla Nin is a species of tilapia. I've always done Pla Nin and catfish (pal dook) and the catfish don't eat the pla nin. I've lost count of the ammount of thai people that tell me they do....but in my experiance they dont, are you going on experince or what someones told you ?. Now mixing pla chon (snake head fish) in is a different story

Generaly where I've seen it being grown it's by absantie landlords, they buy a piece of land and just plant some euca on it, easy to grow, no looking after. They will look to get one or two crops out of it, say about 10 years then sell the land, or even get the first then sell during the second as a "viable" euca plantation, which of course it is'nt as whatever you would get for the second crop you would end up spending at least that to get the land back into usable condition.

They will have gotten 1 or 2 crops out of it, plus the speculation that land will increace in value, a nice little earner over say about 7-10 years.

If you plant them close, thin them out at 3 years, i.e cut everyother one and then let the rest have another two.

Personaly I would'nt bother with it as with it little care they are much better crops to grow for a sustanible income. I also would'nt even entertain the idea of buying land that it's been grown on, the vast majority of people growing it don't put anything back in, I'm not even sure that it is an economicly viable crop if you fertilise it properly

Excelent MF thanks a lot.

Sezzo, I've moved this to the farming forum as it's not really area specific you might get more replies. If you want it moved back just let me know.

Also you could look here

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=66768 also about Euca

MF, yea would be great if you have one. Once we get some input on this I'll probably make a new thread and pin it.

Thanks for that one TT

Well I bet your looking here to find some, so am I

Apart from local shops and being able to sometimes order forage seed through the local DLD office I dont really know. So have anyone got any links or addreses of bulk seed distributers or fertiliser manufactures ?

Black Nile Telapia-Pla nin, Red Nile Telapia- Pla tap tin

Pla Tap Tin need running water to do well, so I've been told. Pla Nin do well in ponds, you can buy different species some growing quite big others only about 6 inches, so check what you buy. I only found this out while tryiong to work out why mine were'nt growing and someone told me that, that particular species does'nt get any bigger!!

Are you looking to do this comercialy or to just supply yourself with fish ?

If it's commercial you will obviously stock at a higher rate and have to give more feed. Pla Nin and Pla dook (cat fish) go well together. The Pla Nin are veggies and the catfish eat anything. Cow manure is often used for "greening up " the water. If your looking just to stock for yourself I'd recon on about 500-1000 fish.

Last year I did 1000 of each Pla Nin and Pla Dook in a pond about half that size feeding only about a kilo of food a day (20 Bhat). We ate loads, sold some in the shop and gave loads away to family and neibours, I probably broke even. I have overflow problems on the pond so we are'nt going to do that many until I've sorted it. This year the pond is still teaming with fish from the babies of the last lot. I'm thinking of introducing about 10-20 Pla Chon in there to keep the numbers down (Pla Chon is a carnivore). I'm not feeding them this year but I should still easily keep us in fish

Toping you from a bore can be expencive, even if you have no seepage and loose just 1cm a day in evaporation that would work out on a 1 Rai pond to 16 cube a day just to keep the level. I have a bore as well, last year during dry season I would have to open the fill for the bore for about 6 hour a day just to keep a level. Apparently pond sort of self seal over time so don't be supprised that in the first year or so you loose quite a bit from seepage.

I think we'll have a change of plan to the link's bit. I'll leave it open for you all to post and then keep editing the opening post to include the links. So feel free to post your farming links here

MF I've only ever dealt with them in some of the shows, they usually have stands in all the argi shows.

Bannork you can some times order them from you nearest DLD (department of livestock Development office)

^ No probs mate, no one reads them anyway, just trying to give the links bit a bit of advertising

^There is a link to GISS in the links section, straight to the english part, but they sometimes change it.

^ I've got a couple, all bought localy. Either just the head with a wooden shaft or all steel. You should be able to get them around you somewhere

Make sure if you have plastic mat's they are'nt stuck under the accelerator pedel. This has actually happend to me in the past

If you do a day trek it will be a bit "zoo" like as you basicly just go to the more touristy and accsesible places. I did one from Chiang Dao Nest in Chiang Dao a year or so ago and it was very good about 50km north of Chaing Mai

Members in P-lock are pretty thin on the ground. In fact not many in the whole of the "central" region. I'm about 1.5 hrs south of P-lock but sorry can't help you on the where to go stuff

^ "talang" thai for square so 120 talang mt is 120 square meteres. You'll sometimes see "wa" and talang "wa" 1 "wa" is 2 meteres so 1 talang wa is 4 sq meters

I've had two of them now. I've got the one woth the top burner in the oven as well that you can use for a grill. I've never had any problems getting ours hot enough. Most regulators on the gas bottles can be adjusted to give more or less gass.

As has been said be careful if you have kids as the do get very hot

Bina

When we did the paper work, it was embassy ( for the declaration that you are free to marry), translation, MFA, Ampur. We let the translation place handle the MFA and paid them, easier and much cheaper as they just sent the paperwork up to us by registered mail so we did'nt have to stay a couple of nights in BKK.

November is coming into cold season, weather should be great, I'm exactly the same as you can eat anything and sleep any where but have to have my hot shower. Given the choice of air con or hot water the water would win hands down.

The diaphram stuff sorry can help you with

Anyway good luck and where's my invite