National Durian Vol. 4

Over the years, we have been aware of the rapid growth in the number of planting methods and durianprocessingfacilities. Interestingly, we now see an increased demand for budded plants. However, it is difficult to obtain highquality grafted seedlings with high survival rates or successful grafts from old trees. To-day experienced grafters who are specialized in grafting old durian trees are difficult to find. The main reason is that the fruit quality of old trees is far more superior to new trees, and old trees take many long years to establish. In addition, old trees are exposed to harsh environmental conditions that may injures or kill them. When an old trees is lost, the farmers will be very sad. A 100% survival rate for old tree grafting The content of technique…

“Chong Kong Seng: Conserve Water and Prevent rain” Branch clefting is one of the methods used by most experienced grafters in the country. The reason is that the buddings produced by this method have high survival rate and are easy to handle during the grafting procedure. Chong Kong Seng is also a master grafter who uses the clefting method. However, his method is slightly different. “After grafting, each buddings will be covered with a plastic bag. I use a transparent popsicle plastic bag to cover the grafted buddings.” “Bag” method provides protection to the buddings, this is very important. “It is common practice for me to use the transparent popsicle plastic bag. Only I have an official certification to do so,” Chong Kong Seng said with a smile. The reason…

“The strongest produced the strongest” There are various types of old trees grafting techniques, disregards which techniques, the most basic requirement in grafting is to produce a new and strong graft budding. Most people will chop the old tree in the mid-section and when the water shoot is mature, the farmers will proceed to grafting. Farmers often emphasize on the steps of water shoots selection because it is the only way to ensure high survival rate of the newly grafted shoot. Farmers hope to produce the strongest plants by selecting the strongest shoots. Top Fruits Sdn Bhd is an example in which majority of the high quality durians are produced from grafted old trees. Top Fruits is one of the large enterprises in Malaysia that has obtained permit to export…

Name : Dato Nina Official Registration No : D2 Fruit Shape : Oval Fruit Weight : Approximate 1.4 kg Nutshell : Thin Flesh : Smooth, viscous, rich and bittersweet taste Flesh Color : Reddish yellow Seed : Shrunken and vestigial Features : The curved shape at the bottom of the fruit makes it difficult to cut open. DURIAN THAT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN D2 is also known as Dato Nina, it is one of the earliest breeds but has gone unnoticed. It has a long history dating back to 1934 and was registered by the Agricultural Bureau as D2. According to Alan Ling, a predecessor of a durian farmer, they planted 60 acres of different varieties in Mantin and Selangor. In the 1930s and the rest in Kampung Air Molek and…

“Pest management has always been a challenge that durian farmers face.” This issue is usually faced by durian owners whose orchards are located in remote areas far from the cities. Generally, these durian orchards have two similarities: 1: Unplanned planting of a variety of durian trees 2: Majority are old trees Based on observations, this is because old durian farmers who planted these trees decades ago did not adopt the current commercial planting techniques. Thus, there was no one specific target durian variety planned and planted compared to the new durian orchards which places importance on planting the Musang King variety. “There are a lot of problems created by the wild animals since they are situated in rural areas,” said Ngoo Kea Way. “I’m not just referring to squirrels, rats…

“The Malaysian durian industry has seen rapid development due to China’s high demand for the Malaysian durian variety Musang King. As one of the major tropical fruits exporters in Malaysia, Top Fruits has been supplying durians to China in large quantities while maintaining a high quality.” Top Fruits pick fruits from their very own orchard in order to maintain quality control. Top Fruits durian orchard has some D24 and D13 varieties. The D13 variety accounts for about 20% of the durian in its orchard. This variety is from Johor and is quite popular in the local scene as well as foreign markets. The new durian variety D204, which is developed by Top Fruits and occupy 20% while the D18 variety accounts for 18%. The D18 trees in the orchard park…