Originally Posted by
Khonwan
Cropping is actually pretty easy if you have sufficient available labour; livestock is much more demanding. I’ve had a lot of experience here in both. As for Thais: their chance of succeeding in farming increases with scale…just like we farangs!
Very true and rubber is even easier once you are up and running [if you have the labor] too easy in fact, it's just an inspecting and keeping an eye on things.
All I do is set the rolling machines once a week, 30 minutes.
The only real work I do, is side line stuff, planting coconuts earlier this year and will be planting cashew nut trees, if it ever stops raining.
More about exercise than money, but they will all add to the kitty in years to come.
When that's done I may have a go at AIs mushrooms or try something new.
We were all brought up to work, just here I work and do things when I want to, not when the boss tells me.
Have 2 young kids and am a 24/7 dad, if they want to go for a splash in the local cascades for a swim, that's up to me, not a time card.
Wouldn't change it for the best job in the world, as that would be a job, this is a life.
Sometimes it can be hard and make you want to bang your head against a tree, but it's ours and when I stand and look at our little factory or rows of rubber, newly planted coconut grove, I know I did that. My kids will have that after I'm gone, not just a house to divide. They will have a village, that they will call home, no matter where they end up.
The best thing I ever did was take the chance to change, if it had failed, the only difference would have been, I would be in rented accommodation, not owned a house in the west. Jim