son_of_erko

Doesn't make sense, are we to believe that the Chinese that are coming are repeat customers. Just more rubbish delivered by the authorities.

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

 that by just bringing a crop to a market wanting to sell it might not be so easy and clear cut, one will do well to do their homeworks before embarking on growing stuff to sell and market...

precisely Ezzra, that is not the intent. I've started calling the DITP for a list of exporters and i'll start researching from there.

1 minute ago, Grumpy John said:

If melon buyers are like mango buyers they will find you.  But its doubtful they would take your whole crop if it isn't maturing at the same time. Over the course of the season we will sell several times. Our first lot of Green mangoes will be 20th December to end of year and our Yellow mangoes from 28th to early Jan.   About 3 to 4 ton of Green and 5 + ton of Yellow.  Our next lot will be a bit less in tonnage and due mid-Jan off the same trees.  But remember this: Selling to a buyer who does nothing more than grade and pack the mangoes,  put them on a pickup and transport to wherever in the next 24 hours will make more profit then you have for a whole years work.  So the farmer/sellers on the side of the road don't look so stupid after all! 

thanks for the input John, i didn't say they were stupid, i said its no way to run a business in my opinion its just not scalable.

47 minutes ago, Tagged said:

That will say about 19 - 20 c? Right? If you could circulate that, it would be ok as coolant radiators, but ideal would be a tank with 7500 liters fresh water pumped from the well at 12 c, that would use 12 hours to reach outside temp, then you could use a small fan circulating air between the two rooms. 

 

 

Things to consider

7 1/2 cubic metres, theres no way you will get a bore hole with a big enough radius and depth combination to hold that amount of water in the pipe,  to find the volume of a cylinder you multiply radius x height  so to hold that amount of water in the bore you would need a pipe approximately 26 cm in diameter with a depth of 140 metres of water in the pipe, then you have refresh rates to consider etc etc... the last time i looked the cost of a 15 cm (6 inch) bore was approximately 2500 per metre to get anything bigger than that you'll be talking super bucks...

so if you are pumping it to a surface storage tank you have the same issues with insulating the tank as it will heat up very quickly, 

solar isn't as expensive as it used to be if i was you i'd look around you can get solar powered AC units now for relatively small investment.

* maybe look into evaporation cooled AC rather than pumping the water around, greenhouses use that as a form of cooling systems

don't worry about too much pressure i'm thinking your problem might be not enough pressure.

If you buy 8.5 pipe (which is the middle gauge blue plastic pipe) the 8.5 stands for the pressure it can withstand i.e 8.5 bar or 123.28 psi so it will not blow apart from the mains pressure.

i'd go with same size pipe that the village system delivers the water to your premises with, and hope that the village system is pressurized enough to go up your slope.

18 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

You should contact the Department of International Trade. They can give you information of where to find all fruit exporters in Chiang Mai as well as all over Thailand.

Tel: +66 (0) 2507 8361- 64, 0 2507 8404

Thanks Matzzon that's a great suggestion for a starting point 

yea I've visited a few melon farms, but getting wholesale supply information out of the staff / owners is not very forth coming. 

they seem to be very tight lipped ???? so i was hoping some one here might have experience with that side of the farming business, and could point me in the right direction.

we have a bore that's 180 metres deep with the pump sitting at 90 metres and the water temp is room temp.

  5 hours ago, johng said:

use one of these instead 

We do not have electric from the net  

solar power is the easy answer to that problem, ????

to add to the post, i'm looking for an out let to buy the whole crop rather than piece meal, i'm not interested in sitting by the side of the road with a pick up load of produce hoping that someone will stop and buy what i'm flogging, not anyway to run a business.

so how to locate a company that would be willing to contract a small small holding to a quota per year?

So the wifie wants to go back home and start a fruit farm, (probably melons of some description), i have no problems with the growing side of the business but when it actually comes to getting the product sold i have zero experience with locating wholesalers, where can i start looking for these contacts? I've searched the local area via Google, but i'm obviously using the wrong terms as i'm not getting anything informative back, we'll be located in the North outside Chiang Mai.

Chalong police station...... does anymore needed to be said.... i think not.

many moons ago and maybe still i'm not sure. it used to have the largest revenue for police a staion outside of Bangkok..

mick is shagged...