Saturday, March 28, 2009
Colourful durians
Hi folks,
Things are getting bright and colourful alright.
Red durians from Borneo are just the beginning;
very soon we will get other colour durians also,
yes, blue, green and purple coloured ones too.
About twenty years ago, an enterprising businesswoman from Queensland, Australia, started the farming of tropical fruits from Malaysia, like rambutan, chiku, langsat, mangosteen and durian. Because she began with seeds rather than from saplings, cheaper in large numbers, the trees took longer to fruit and also did not produce well. But this woman who is a qualified botanist and biologist experimented. Her efforts did not fail her, and last year her efforts of hybridising with some durians she had planted from Indonesia bore fruit, and much to her surprise and to her team of research workers her durians were colourful, not the usual orange or golden but slightly purplish and also bluish.
This woman is very shrewd, she knows that people will pay a higher price for things strange and new, and she had concentrated on producing a big crop this year. However her fruits are not expected to be exported yet as the supply will not be enough to meet local comsumption.
But she has already taken forward orders to sell saplings a year ahead, at A$1,000 each. As to-date the orders have already reached forty-three thousand, but she would limit it to forty-five thousand which coincides with her forty-fifth birthday early next month.
What a success, forty five millions dollars just selling her saplings only, and collecting it in advance.
I had been fertilising my chiku plant with plain beanmilk or tauhuaychwee, but still I get brown chiku. Maybe I will succeed in getting red chiku one day.
Ron
Things are getting bright and colourful alright.
Red durians from Borneo are just the beginning;
very soon we will get other colour durians also,
yes, blue, green and purple coloured ones too.
About twenty years ago, an enterprising businesswoman from Queensland, Australia, started the farming of tropical fruits from Malaysia, like rambutan, chiku, langsat, mangosteen and durian. Because she began with seeds rather than from saplings, cheaper in large numbers, the trees took longer to fruit and also did not produce well. But this woman who is a qualified botanist and biologist experimented. Her efforts did not fail her, and last year her efforts of hybridising with some durians she had planted from Indonesia bore fruit, and much to her surprise and to her team of research workers her durians were colourful, not the usual orange or golden but slightly purplish and also bluish.
This woman is very shrewd, she knows that people will pay a higher price for things strange and new, and she had concentrated on producing a big crop this year. However her fruits are not expected to be exported yet as the supply will not be enough to meet local comsumption.
But she has already taken forward orders to sell saplings a year ahead, at A$1,000 each. As to-date the orders have already reached forty-three thousand, but she would limit it to forty-five thousand which coincides with her forty-fifth birthday early next month.
What a success, forty five millions dollars just selling her saplings only, and collecting it in advance.
I had been fertilising my chiku plant with plain beanmilk or tauhuaychwee, but still I get brown chiku. Maybe I will succeed in getting red chiku one day.
Ron
# posted by chunmu @ 10:36 PM 
