It's very easy to make money by farming in Isaan. First, you buy a pig, then you teach him to play the piano. When he is sufficiently proficient you rent him out as "live music" to bars in Pattaya. He wouldn't have to be much good to be better than most bands there and iif he failed to impress he could be turned into sausages.
Most of Isaan's pigs are already working in Pattaya.Originally Posted by can123
There is some modest money to be made with Fish and Shrimp/Prawn Farming.
'Modest' from a Thai wage perspective.
That's the bottom line, Thai small farming pays Thai returns, a person with a reasonable job earns, say 20,000 Baht per month and they can live, pay rent, eat, just like someone in the west on 2,000 dollars a month.
A small farmer, no rent, few bills needs a lot less, if you as a farang can live a Thai life style, then a good profitable [Thai income] farm will keep you fed, housed for free.
There are plenty of farangs. after securing their permission to stay, live simple farming lives, you don't need a lot of money here.
Those who want to take up an alternate life style, need to plan, there are ways, a good steady income can come from rubber, palm oil, cashew nuts etc. you need to know how much you will require to support your life style.
You will find few farangs on here living the farmers life, internet is a cost not necessary to living, as is aircon, new cars and nightly visits to the bar.
A simple easy life can be had, if you are of that mind, but you will not be lord of the manor, just another farmer getting by.
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That's if you're lucky enough for your Thai wife to own the land.
If you need to buy the land, it will take a life-time to get the investment back.
The other thing is will the Thai wife be willing to accept that lifestyle. Being married to a falang normally means not having to do anything. The concept of a falang working the land or raising livestock to get by is not understood.
When we had the pigs the locals couldn't get their heads around the fact the wife and I did all the work ourselves.
They also think they will get things cheaper from you. "You falang not need money sell me pig cheap cheap"
We enjoyed the lifestyle, I loved raising pigs but trying to do business with the Thai was bloody hard work.
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It's not a business investment, if the land is legal it doesn't lose value, it's a life style choice, a early retirement plan in my case.Originally Posted by stroller
BD, some Thai wives work, some don't, mine takes care of the buying and selling, deals with the workers etc, maybe 5, 10 hours a week, a lot easier than a working life in Australia.
As said, not a life for most, but it works for me, young kids and a 24/7 dad and mum.
Sorry Jim maybe I was being too generic. I was merely giving food for thought to people who are considering the alternative lifestyle.
Spending quality time with the family is the most important thing.
Pig farm is good, we seen couple years ago a British doing well with this...
get investors back in UK to buy one piggy that will make 7 each so and so... his business plan is some where around the farming threads, or scamming threads...
Than we seen another milk cow farmer that lost all the small herd due to a virus..
Cassava in Thailand produces 15 to 25 tons per hectares, in Phils another variety that only gives 5 tons hectare, less starch but better taste for cakes.
A guy in korat built up a nice setup to farm turtles, once the animals ready for the Koreans, a ban of export came to halt all, over use of antibiotics by some...
There is a blog around in Phils of a guy that looks to harvest all he does out of season for best price, doing well but needs knowledge and experience.
Farm humans, plant teepees and yurts, make a bed and breakie farm...
Good luck whatever...
Monday,Tuesday, then it goes WTF !
A good friend of mine who lived about 20 kms from me here in Buriram province who sadly passed away before Xmas went into pigs in a rather big way (30 breeding sows ) after two years of losing money he packed the game in an older but poorer guy ,he said the cost of pig food was the problem , reading the News from the UK its no better there too https://www.theguardian.com/environm...it-pig-farmers
[quote=jamescollister;3290061]That's the bottom line, Thai small farming pays Thai returns, a person with a reasonable job earns, say 20,000 Baht per month and they can live, pay rent, eat, just like someone in the west on 2,000 dollars a month.
A small farmer, no rent, few bills needs a lot less, if you as a farang can live a Thai life style, then a good profitable [Thai income] farm will keep you fed, housed for free.
There are plenty of farangs. after securing their permission to stay, live simple farming lives, you don't need a lot of money here.
Good words Jim.
Maybe I am a bit thick but as we pay our cutters 50% of product sale price and also share 50/50 maintenance costs I am at loss to understand why they should be any worse/better off than the plantation owners regardless of nationality.But somehow they always whine that they are broke..go figure Can’t speak to other agricultural products of course.
But please do not get me wrong...I think our cutters are good honest people. They are neighbors and have their own small rubber farm, don’t gamble or even drink to excess as far as I know.
We often supply them with veggies and fruits and they reciprocate. Gave the father my relatively new Chinese dirt bike after I got sick of looking at it, also an ancient brush cutter.Bugger fixed both and now uses. Maybe money management is not their forte or perhaps they are supporting others??
How many cutters do you have?Originally Posted by crepitas
You are taking as much money as all of them together.
All my tappers have a pickup, first thing they buy when they have the deposit, price of rubber goes down, but the payments stay the same.Originally Posted by crepitas
My number one tapper family, old truck, but bought a rice harvester, 1 mill Baht on payments, smart guy, always broke, but will own the harvester outright next year.
Think we all live to the limit of our income, here or in the west, having that new I phone is more important then having a few Baht in the bank.
That's the idea, you get about the same as each tapper, just sold one plantations rubber today. Best worker and best plantation,4 taps meaning husband and wife team earned 1,000 Baht per tap, or 4,000 for the week, I do a 60/40 split, so get 6,000 Baht.
I wear some of the extra costs, fuel, cups etc so ends up about 50/50 over time, when prices are better it's a straight 60/40 for everything.
Jim, how many Rai are tapped to get 10,000 Baht per week, and is that net or gross?
I understand that, fair enough if you own the land.Originally Posted by jamescollister
But one shouldn't be wondering why cutters may be out of pocket while oneself is doing alright, when one makes as much as 10 of them combined while sipping beer on the proch.
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