My wife and I almost finished building our house not far from Chiang Saen. Behind the house down the hill my wife owns some land with rubber trees. The trees are about 10 years old and nobody is taping them.
We both know nothing about rubber trees and don't intend to become rubber farmers.
Since we soon will have more time we are thinking about cutting a few of them, maybe 3-4 rows, about 100 trees max. We intend to plant different fruit trees instead, mostly Jackfruit and Durian. We both are absolutely newbies and have just started to do some research.
I discovered this forum and thought I seek some advice here..
After looking around a bit we found one company who would cut our trees and pay 30 Baht per tree. Seems not much to me but we don't have any costs and get some Baht+free space to plant some fruit trees. They will only cut the trees and leave the stumps and the roots in the earth.
We were thinking to plant the fruit trees between the rubber tree stumps.
Anyone has some experience on this? The rotting rubber tree roots should enrich the soil over time, similar to a hugelculture bed, or am I wrong? Or is the price of 30 Baht per tree + free cutting too low? Is it even possible to sucesfully grow fruit trees in a manner like that?
Any advice on this subject and in growing Durian and Jackfruit in particular are greatly appreciated.
Please excuse my grammar, English is not my 1st language.