Life as a Plantation Student

It's hard to say goodbye to the memory that we create together. Yes its true... there are a lot of information i gain from this courses. I would like to say thank you very much to the Madam Azlina for guide us along this course for this sem. There are lot of valuable knowledge, information and also memories that hard for me to forget. I am also appreciate to the all of our supervisor in their willing to spare a time, share a knowledge and also help us in the field. I wanna say thank you to the SV Lukman, SV Shahrul, SV Naza, Cik Yan and Kak Sabrina also and not forgot to the my team. I am a very special thanks to them in helping me in the field, work together to growing up our baby. Their already do their best in this course. Thank you to our leader Abu, Hazwan (Abe) and Suhaini (Mek Sue). I am so grateful can get work with them, Without them i couldn't do all this things by myself. I think that's all for me to share all about my experience as a plantation st...

Finally our Zea mays become an adult not more a baby. A cute sweet corn baby. It's about 70 days after my team getting so hard to plant sweet corn, finally our blood, sweat and tears profitable because it's harvest time. I am so excited to waiting time golden time. So, here i'm going to share with you how i am observe to know the sweet corn already can harvest or not. Firstly, we can the physical shape of sweet corn which is getting bigger and matured already and we also can press smoothly the sweet corn and feel the corn. this sweet corn are already mature and ready to harvest the physical still not big enough and the corn still not fully yellowish After a long day of harvesting, here what my team get he is our first customer  Alhamdullilah... that are lot of sweet corn was harvest We sale the sweet corn about RM 10 in one plastic bag which contain about 6-7 of sweet corn based on the size also. We just only got RM 170 for our...

It’s a normal if some plant got attack by pest and disease and its seems goes to sweet corn. Here are a few pest and disease attack by sweet corn. Firstly is chlorosis. symptom of plant disease in which normally green tissue is pale, yellow or bleached. it results from failure of chlorophyll to develop because of infection by a virus, lack of an essential mineral or oxygen, injury from alkali, fertilizer, air pollution or cold, insect, mite or nematode feeding gas main leaks, compaction or change in  soil level and stem or root. Severely chlorotic plants are stunted and shoots may die back to the roots. Control is aimed specifically at the causal agent of the disease. Our lecture, Madam Azlina said the chlorosis is caused when the nitrogen in mobilize to the fruit of the corn and all the nitrogen is being centralized for the fruit, that will cause the under part of the corn is lack of the nitrogen and causes the chlorosis, It's actually a common things ha...