New Harvest Record : 1.2 Tons of Lime

Last weekend we harvested about 1.2 tons of lime (or equivalent to 26 medium size sacks). It’s really a hard work for my husband, me and 5 others. It’s taken us 2 days to (partly) complete the harvesting process. I am glad with the return but a bit sad with my sunburn.

My husband (without shirt) with Mr. Lim the fruits taukey. 

Part of harvested fruits, there were 26 sacks of them

Big smiles...

Sunset at Lenggong. It's already dusk when we finished selling the lime.

Pruning and fertilizing operations

2nd project we done before Ramadhan was pruning and fertilizing lime trees. This project only involved three person, my husband,  my nephew, alif and Wak Nan, my worker. The rest of the 'crew' has left whether for work or school. It was a hard job for three of them, they have to pull the branch up at least 1 feet from the ground, to make the branch stay on that position they then  put a pole under the branch. Higher branch will promote good air circulation under the tree, easy to fertilize, easy to harvest and to allow additional sunlight to pass through, which help prevent diseases. Demand for lime fruits is quite good now. Beside lime extracts are used in cleaning product and aromatherapy its also a common ingredient in Malay and Thai dishes. Health benefit of lime can be read thru this link http://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/health-benefits-of-lime.html

carefully select the right branch

support the branch with a stick

my husband proud of his fruits production

Wak Nan happy and funny young man

my nephew, alif, mr. lime to be

as for me, just pull the grass under the tree with my golf golve

we found many empty bird nest on the branch

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how we started our lime fruit business

 My husband and i started our lime fruit business in 2011 after we bought 10 acres of land in Air Karah, Lenggong, Perak, Malaysia. We plan to plant rubber tree on this land, but during the inspection on the site, we were quite surprise to find out that our land has been cultivated with over 200 lime trees. At first, we do not know what to do with their fruit, one day my hubby brought a couple of sack to the market and sell it to the vegetable wholesaler, surprisingly he came back with RM600 (USD200). Now we produce around 1 to 2 metric tan of lime fruits a month. Enough to pay my Indonesian worker's salary and my husband 4x4 Toyota Hilux

lime trees "hiding" behind the bush

around 200 lime trees cultivated in the middle of tropical forest

mature fruits

stream across the land

walk way to the lime tree

we do not know what to do, so we just play with the sand along the stream

pick some for my kitchen

mature and juicy

not in good condition