ChanatS

Dear Khun Khonwan and all,

As i post on page 6, now my cassava plantation is 3 month old with the size of 100 rai the progress as in the vdo. Start from picture of 1st month, the 2nd month show the soil cracking and recently just 3 month we checking on the roots. This is in DarnKhunTod NaKornRachChaSiMa province start planting from 1st april to before SongKran holiday. With mix varieties.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaCUPNQ5zk]

Welcome on any comment and suggestion.

Regards,

Chanat S.

Dear Issangeorge,

The detail about the production is below and the foliar fertilizer is from my company.

About the question you ask, if you can give me the herb formula name I would find out what it is. Also as you mention only soak I certainly say it’s hard to believe that will get 30 tons per rai if there is no appropriate fertilization.

Production procedure:

- Soak bundle of stems (20 cm. each long) 1 minute with solution of POWER™-1 at 40cc with 20 liters of water. (This will help increase rate of survival new stem on ground) use 400cc in 200 liters drum. 128 Baht for all stem.

- Planting stems

- Spray with Urena™ at 2nd week or after first leaf come up 3 days with the solution 200 cc with 20 liters of water (This will encourage fast growing at emergence stage) 33 Baht per rai

- From the 4th week spray all over the cassava with POWER™-1 with solution of 200 cc with 20 liters of water. Continue biweekly (4th 6th 8th 10th 12th week) 5 times cost 266 baht per rai.

- Fertilizer 15-15-15 at 3 months old with 20 kg. per rai (recommended but I didn’t use this time) 25 baht per kg. 500 baht per rai. Forget to put it in!!!

- At 3rd month spray POWER™-1 solution of 500 cc with 20 liters of water on biweekly basis (14th 16th 18th 20th week). Cost 1,070 baht per rai. (purpose: encourage growth)

- At 5th month spray POWER™-2 solution of 500 cc with 20 liters of water. On biweekly basis (22nd 24th 26th 28th 30th 32nd week) until before harvest 2 weeks. Cost 1,600 baht per rai. (purpose: enlarge roots)

- Tractor Kubota small one use 2 liters of diesel cost approximate 30 baht per rai at a time run around the plantation 17 times cost 1,120 baht per rai.

- The gun sprayer and mist blower attach behind tractor, I made cost 80,000 baht. Actually, at first 6 months I use the gun sprayer and it was not doing a good job on spreading the solution enough. So I develop for mist blower, which is better on application to cover the cassava leaf and use only one worker drove and adjust. I did not count the cost in here.

- Therefore, the cost add up to 128+33+266+1,070+1,600+1,120 = 4,217 baht per rai

- The rest is same as Khonwan does except it cost more a little bit around 3,200 baht because 10 works per rai at (150 baht each per day) to get things done here. Just want to know the result as quick as possible. However, I didn’t put in the granule fertilizer because I focus on the application too much hurrr. With this cost is adding with the stem around 670 baht per rai already.

In conclusion, I spend about 4,300+3,200 = 7,500 baht per rai for this corp and return at 1.1 baht per kg. - 3% (SaHaKorn deduct on impurities) =1.067 baht per kg. sell at avg 9.3 per rai equal income 9,920 - expense 7,500 = 2,420 baht per rai.

Regards,

Chanat S.

Dear Khonwan and all,

Khonwan, you have done valuable and helpful information on Cassava in Thailand.

I would like to share some information on Cassava plantation that I hands on especially with foliar fertilizer to improve yield with cost effective and time saving.

With the pictures I attached the cassava at my factory in Karnjanaburi are given "Spoon feeding" foliar fertilizer "POWER" by monthly interval for with a special application (mist blower) to minimize labor cost and foliar fertilizer solution cost. (200 liters solution covers 6.25 rai)

This cassava I harvest less than 10 months old with the variety of Rayong 35. I got average 9.3 ton per rai with 2,600 cassavas per rai with applications of foliar fertilizer and without granule fertilizer at all. I did on 10 rai. As the farmer that sold me the variety with their maximum yield was 4 tons per rai at 11 months harvest. I believe there still some progress can be improve on the application and I did. Because the varies of the cassava weight is now depend on the application. Maximum I got is 12.5 kg per cassava and minimum is 3 kg per cassava on sampling.

Before May 2009,I will start a new cassava project in NaKonRachSriMa Province for another 100-200 rai and this time with my calculation will make at least 15 tons per rai within 11 months. At 2,600 cassavas per rai. Will notify and welcome for plantation visit.

Regards,

Chanat S.

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PS. Anyone need information on these I'm happy to explain to you guys more on the phone.