pokok kelapa sawit mula keluar buah

tetiba petang tu masa makan tengahari wan (panggilan kami untuk ibu) bertanya tak nak gi tengok kebun ke..why not..mengapa tidak dalam hati..buleh jugok kata saya dgn loghat kelantan..doh lamo tok jengok sawit kito tu..jale x elok keta saga meli bulih masuk..kereta saga kami yg ditinggalkan kt kg tu..dah ditaliponnya dek dia kt adik kami yg berada di kampung berdekatan dengan kebun ni di jelawang, kuala balah...

luas kebun ni 3 ekar tapi sebahagiannya tanah lembah bahagian berdepn dgn jalan utama jeli-kuala balah-dabong dah kami timbus balik dan tidak ditanam apa2 n may be will be empty for a while just reserved for some kind of house to be built later..anak air kami sediakan culvert secukupnya and so far no flooding or overflow at the up-stream due to chockage ever reported..we have constructed two lines of culvert just in-case one got chocked at-least another one is useable..jalan selamat...

ada dalam 101 pokok yang mula ditanam dalam tahun 2010 kalau tak silap..kna check rekod bayaran kt contractor yg buat terracing dulu..tpi rasa malas la plop..tanaman asal dia adalah getah tetapi memandangkan harga getah yang tidak menentu dgn terciptanya getah tiruan maka getah asli telah kurang permintaan..currently klau tak silap rega dah rm2 lebih perkg compare at one time may be rm7..g menoreh pun pakai kereta masa tu..i m not sure how much is the price of the palm oil fruits at the moment until we started selling them..

so we decided to cut the rubber trees and replace it with palm oil..

ini bunga jantan and bunga betina within one tree..less fruit but u need the male flower..

tikus adalah musuh utama buah kelapa sawit n looked like we have to built some kind of bird nest to attract owl to be around..this is a young fruit..

another musuh ialah babi..this is the track mark used by them..at-least masa pokok ni still small it might caused us problem when dia mula sondol pokok kecik cari umbut or cacing for that matter..to avoid them from getting into the area when we had the perimeter surrounded with electrical wire fence..low-volatage current metal-wound string attached to a battery with transformer enough to jolt anything even human who touched or came in contact with the wire..

next to us the owner chose to plant rubber trees but we never know the price will go up when the trees were matured to be tapped in the next 4-5 years..

view towards the banjaran where the stong water fall is..

the oil palm trees