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The fruit is almost as big as two-year child. Wonderful! |
This blog is about jackfruits or NANGKA (Artocarpus heterophyllus).General aspects of agronomic practices,pest management,by products, etc will be highlighted. It is written in English and the Malaysian language. Any enquiries could be forwarded to zainudinhaji@gmail.com or call +60123535411.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Another Malaysian Jackfruit Variety
One of the variety is Subang. It very large and heavy. Here how it looks.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Malaysian Jackfruits Variety
There are many jackfruit varieties in Malaysia. The Department of Agriculture has registered many clones. There are old clones like NS1 , NS 2 etc but these clones are proned to bacterial diseases like Phytopthora and Corticium which lasts about 10-15 years after planting, and where most of the clones are grafted. Through selection many more varieties have been selected and registered like J29, J33, J 34.etc There are plantations which had keen to grow these jackfruits. Based on yield and quality, there are many outcomers. One of the popular one is J33. This variety is very sweet, less flatulence, less sticky, very crunchy. and long shelf life.
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Malaysia's jackfruit Madu variety |
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Post Harvest in Jack Fruits
Young generations today prefer to eat ready-to-eat foods or fast-foods. That is why fast-foods are getting very popular since decades ago.Western countries have innovated countless fast-foods e.g Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), McDonalds, A n W etc. Our new generations have consumed these fast-foods and they like and crave them very much. Even if you ask them; how chicken looks like? They will point to chicken avaialble in KFCs like chicken wings, drumsticks whats not.
Back to agriculture,we should revolutionize our thinking to new products. For instance in jackfruits. How could we encourage the young ones to eat this messy fruits with latex and sticky gums? We could say to them that this fruit is nice, aromatic blah blah .. but it is bulky and difficult to open. And morever, consumed jackfruit is not easily to eat just like apple or oranges, it needs more than that.
Yes, jackfruits (JF) is not easy to eat.But, there are ways we could attract young generations to eat. Of course through innovations like minimally process or fresh cut . Make the product presentable, attractive, ready-to-eat, and clean. I am sure the younger generations will love to eat if they have tasted this fruits.
Here are some example how minimally process is done.
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Phamplet showing minimally process jackfruit |
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Minimally process JF are becoming popular, they can be air-flown to any destinations |
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Nangka Terus Di Makan
Buah naga adalah sejenis buah-buahan yang terbesar di dunia. Satu biji beratnya diantara 15 hingga 30 kg. Kalau dimakan untuk satu keluarga mungkin tidak akan habis.Kalau nak kupas nangka ramai yang tak tahu-kerana nangka mempunyai getah.Getah ini akan melekat pada pisau atau tangan apabila membuka buah nangka tersebut. Kepada mereka yang tidak berpengalaman untuk membuka nangka, memang akan menjadi masalah, dimana kah sudut yang perlu dibuka dahulu. Kalau tidak pisau entah kemana, buah entak kemana tangan kena getah. Melekit.
Jadi bagi mudah cari, kini dipasaran buah nanka boleh di makan terus. Ia dikupas dan dibuang jeraminya setelah di masuk kedalam polistrin dan dibungkus dengan plastik nipis. Cara ini dinamakan pemprosesan minima atau minimally processed. Kualiti buah sentiasa segar dan rasanya serta wangi(aroma) pula tidak hilang.
Jadi bagi mudah cari, kini dipasaran buah nanka boleh di makan terus. Ia dikupas dan dibuang jeraminya setelah di masuk kedalam polistrin dan dibungkus dengan plastik nipis. Cara ini dinamakan pemprosesan minima atau minimally processed. Kualiti buah sentiasa segar dan rasanya serta wangi(aroma) pula tidak hilang.
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Nangka yang sudah dikupas di masukkan kedalam polistrin siap untuk dijual |
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Nangka di Malaysia
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
A Visit Jackfruit Growing Area, Pahang Malaysia
On March 4,2013 we make a visit to one of the largest jackfruits growing in Malaysia. It is one and half-hour drive from the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The location of the farm is at annex of KL-East Coast Bound Highway. I have planned to visit this area since last year.Till now I had the opportunity to make the visit after we make some arrangements with officer-in-charge and growers. The area is one of agriculral areas which had been designated to be grown with jackfruits; where 2,000 acres have been planted. Actually, in Malaysia the total acreage is about 10,000 acre by end of 2013.
I managed to visit two farms only because it was raining heavily. And I also had the chance to meet the growers and discuss some issues related jackfruits growing here. Some of the issues discussed are
a. Farm Management
b. Tree management
c. Fertilization program
d. Disease control
e. Future plans
We, in Malaysia are actively doing research in this crop particularly it has a very high demand both from overseas and local markets. The main export market is China and the Middle East countries.
Please contact me at zainudinhaji@gmail.com , if you need some infomation.
Jackfruit plantation in Malaysia |
A commercial jackfruit growing areas |
Discussion with jackfruit growers |
I managed to visit two farms only because it was raining heavily. And I also had the chance to meet the growers and discuss some issues related jackfruits growing here. Some of the issues discussed are
a. Farm Management
b. Tree management
c. Fertilization program
d. Disease control
e. Future plans
Technical discussions between researchers and farmers |
A well maintained jackfruits farm |
A four-year old jackfruit can bear fruits 10-12 fruits each weighs 15 kg |
Insects attack jackfruits tree (pin hole insect) |
A four-year old attacked by bacteria |
Harvesting jackfruits , some weigh up to 20kgs |
Malaysian jackfruits |
How jackfruits is opened |
Jacfruits have many seeds with pulp -sweet smelling and aromatic |
Jackfruits are wrapped when they are small to prevent from insect attack or damage |
One of the commercial clones-J29 clone |
J29 clone is orange yellow and sweet but soft. |
We, in Malaysia are actively doing research in this crop particularly it has a very high demand both from overseas and local markets. The main export market is China and the Middle East countries.
Please contact me at zainudinhaji@gmail.com , if you need some infomation.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Jackfruits Growing in Malaysia
Jackfruits Growing in Malaysia
Jackfruit has traditionally remained a minor and less important fruit crop in the 1970s and 1980s. Its hectarage has increased from 3,133 ha in 2005 to 3,559 ha. in 2010 with the production of 17,624 m.t to 19,516 m.t., respectively. The steady increase has been attributed to several factors such as improved cultural management, varietal selection, post harvest handling, new market outlets and government initiatives. With the recent Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), Agriculture National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) and Entry Point Projects (EPPs) that the govenment aims to double agriculture sector’s contribution to gross national income (GNI) and upgrading capabilities to produce fruits for premium markets, respectively. At this juncture jackfruits has become one of the important fruits in the Entry Point Projects (EPP) besides, papaya (Eksotika), pineapple(MD2), rockmelons(KR ), starfruits (B10) and banana (Cavendish).
Jackfruits or Nangka is grown in large scale in Malaysia. Most of the plantations are found in Taman Kekal Makanan Negara or National Permanent Food Sites |
Jacfruits are the biggest fruit in the world. The pulp is very sweet, aromatic and crunchy.Many varieties are planted in Malaysia. |
Early research in jackfruits showed that most emphasis were focussed on pests and disease control (Sariah, 1999), varietal selection (Palaniappan and Ting Fui, 2001) and recently minimally process studies in post harvest (Latifah, 2007). Earlier, Abd Razak and Zainal Abidin (2001) suggested that marketing of fresh fruits
as minimally processed or processed products should be made on the basis when venturing into new markets.
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Bahasa Malaysia translation
Penanaman nangka menjadi
tanaman tradisional dan kurang penting pada tahun 1970 dan 1980. Pada
akhir-akhir ini keluasan penanaman nangka telah berkembang dari 3,133 hektar
pada 2005 ke 3,559 hektar pada tahun 2010 dimana pengeluran telah meningkat
dari 17,624 metrik ton ke 19,516 metrik ton. Peningkatan keluasan tersebut
telah sebabkan oleh beberapa faktor diantaranya pengurusan yang baik, pemilihan
varieti yang terpilih, pengendalian lepas tuai, pasaran baru dan pembukaan
kawasan-kawasan baru. Pada dasarnya kerajaan
telah mensasarkan pengeluaran makanan
negara ke dua kali ganda melalui melalui Program Transformasi Ekonomi
(GTP) dan EPP. Salah satu daripada lapan tanaman seperti betik, jambu batu, belimbing,
pisang, rockmelon, nangka telah terpilih
di dalam program ini. Kajian awal di dalam
penanaman nangka banyak tertumpu kepada pengawalan penyakit. Selain itu, kajian
penanaman varieti-varieti yang sesuai dan kajian proses minima didalam lepas
tuai.
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