Processing fresh chili into dried chili!

Dried chilies are one of the most important ingredients to Malaysian people because dried chilies produce spicy flavor that make foods more delicious. Our country has to import lots of dried chilies for domestic uses and to make chili paste. Technology to process fresh chilies into dried chilies is easy, simple and practical.

Chilies need to be chosen properly before harvested and will be dried under sunlight for few days. The most suitable season to dry the chilies is on dry season when there is low rain because chilies can dry faster during dry season compared to other season.  Only red chilies will be chosen to be harvested while chilies that are still green will be left until it turns red. Fresh red chilies that have been harvested then have to undergo grading process to dispose bad chilies or poor quality chilies. Then, chilies that have been dried will be graded and packed before it is store in warehouse or exported to the market.

 However, there is extra tip which is important before we dry the chilies. Prepare hot sulfite solution with concentration between 0.2%. 20gram of Calcium Metabisulfite or Natrium Bisulfite is added into 20 liter of water. This solution then will be left heated for few minutes. 

Blanching process is a process where the chilies can be dipped into hot Calcium Metabisulfite or Natrium Bisulfite for 3 minutes. Every 1kilogram of chili need 2 liter of sulfite solution. The main purpose of this activity is to make the drying process faster and preventing it from turning bad due to fungus. In additional cases, some farmers will cut chili into half but the seeds will remained in the chili. But the disadvantage for this method is it only suitable for local market only. This is because farmers need to provide extra cost for labors because it need more work than it should be.

After 3 minutes, chili will be lifted and drained, chili’s seed that left apart during blanching process also will lifted and drained. To minimize the cost, this solution can be use many times.

Next process is drying process. After the chili undergo blanching process, chilies with their seeds will be dried under the sunlight or as better option, farmers can dry it in oven. The suitable temperature for drying process is about 45°C if the oven have fan inside it and cannot over than 79°C for normal oven. Chili need to be dried until the water content inside the chili is below 9%. Then dried chilies are pack into tight container use to prevent water vapor flow inside the container. Chilies need to store in dry area and not to humid.

Grinding the chili powder is the last process before it will be marketed for local or exported to other places. Dried chili need to grind before it will become chili powder. For industrial scale, dried chili will be grind into powder using hammer mill. But if it for small scale, dried chili can be grind using blender. After undergo grinding process, chili powder then undergo filtering process. Chili powder then will be pack into airtight glass bottle or airtight plastic bottle. Chili powder is sprinkle on the food to make it more appetizing.

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Written by Nor Loqman (S22494) 

Sos Cili Susur Unjur Bintulu ( Pn Hamidah )

Marketing of Chili Fertigation Farm

As we mention in the older update, we did mention that the type of chili that we plant is Kulai (461) because the demand of this type is favorable in Bintulu. Besides, there are less competition between farmers in Bintulu which is using a fertigation system.

            
          On 16 December 2016, we did an interview session with one of the local entrepreneurship in Bintulu that run a chili sauce in Sarawak. Sos Cili Udang Sesar Unjur is a Small Medium Industry (SMI) that is located at Lot 629, Kampung Baru Laut, Bintulu. The owner, Puan Hamidah has run business since 2008 and it almost 9 years now. We are targeting SMI in bintulu  as our loyal customer and Puan Hamidah is the best sample of our loyal customer. 
          
           She run her chili sauce business by using around 24 kg of chili per month. She did mention that one of the most often problem she face is to get chili supply which is from supplier in Pasar Utama Bintulu (PUB). This is one of the reason why we are here so that we can supply high quality of chili every months to Pn Hamidah's company and it have encourage her to enlarge the company with no worries about supplier.

Pn Hamidah the owner of Sos Cili Susur Unjur

                                                       

            Based on our interview, Puan Hamidah mention that she can only process the chili sauce once a week which is during weekend. She use around 6kg of Kulai chili Gred A to process her chili sauce in a week which is 24 kg per month. She produce 278 bottles of chili sauce per process (6 kg of chili). Usually Puan Hamidah bought chili from PUB and the cost that she spend to buy chili per kilo is expensive. So, based on our observation if Puan Hamidah buy chili fresh from the farm, it can reduce her cost.

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            With 6 kg chili, she can produce 278 bottles of chili sauce a week or 1112 bottles per month. The price of one bottle chili sauce is RM 4 excluding postage. For location, Puan Hamidah sell all of her chili sauce in her poses house which is next to her own house. Customers will go to the place where she sell all of her chili sauce or they will order it through direct call or online.

            During the interview with Puan Hamidah, we also have been exposed with the process of chili sauce in the process house. The process is simple as you can see in the picture below:

traditional way to cook the chili

machine that provided by goverment to the SMI

we are having experience in process of chili sauce

Final packaging of chili sauce bottle

Our complete member
from left ; Nadia , Connie, Adele, Pn Hamidah, Pn Hamidah's husband, Haha Ezati, Loqman, Ammar,Iman 

 For the process of dry chili will be shown in the next post. How we process it ??  Keep calm.. 

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Written By Nadia Husna (S22239)

Fertigation Farming of Chilli ~ Dr. Usahawantani's Project of 3 Hectare Land in Jalan Bintulu-Tatau

Last week, part of our group members which is Norhamizah Ezati, Nadia Husna, Amirul Ammar and myself, Iman Ashraf have returned to peninsular during the semester break. So, we take some time which is on 29 December 2016 to do a interview session with one of the farmers who plant chilli fertigation farming systems at Labu, Seremban. We had to interview farmer in peninsular because yet no farmer running fertigation system in Sarawak especially in Bintulu that we can get information.

Mr. Fahirul Razi as an entrepreneur who start practicing this system 5 months ago with his assistance and cooperation of Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK) Seremban. The varieties that he choose is Kulai (461) which is high demand of customer. Area of cultivated land is 1 hectare, which can accommodate as many as 4000 polybag. Before the seed is planted, it is first sown in nursery. 

 First from left: Mr. Fahirul Razi 

                      

NURSERY 

Nursery Tray

The type of Fertigation system that he use is Drip Fertigation that require other equipment such as fertilizer tank, fertilizer solution, polypipe, venturi device, pump, and timer. So, overall cost of this system including herbicides for 1 hectare = 4000 polybag is RM60,000 For first harvesting after planting 4000 polybag, he got a yield of 32 tons of chilli sold at RM2.80 to RM6.50 per kilogram rates by grade into the market around like grocery and wholesalers.

Based on our observation from information that we got from this interview, the cost that we need to start our Fertigation farming is around RM180,000 for 3 hectare land that we buy at KM 34 Jalan Bintulu-Tatau. As assumption, we will get a yield of 96 tons of chilli and the price is set based on their grade then, we will supply it to the market around Bintulu such as grocery store and supermarket including Farley, MDS and Pasar Tamu Bintulu.

           

GRADE A    RM 6.50 PER KG

GRADE C  RM 2.80 PER KG

GRADE B RM 4.5 PER KG

For your information, we had found a potential customer to buy our chilli regularly which is Sos Cili Udang Sesar Unjur which produce chilli sauce that conducted by Puan Hamidah at Lot 629 Kampung Baru Laut, Bintulu.

The next update will explain about our next interview with our potential customer, Sos Cili Udang Sesar Unjur. 

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Written by Iman Ashraf (S22654) and Norhamizah Ezati (S22536)

Organization Chart

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

This is our company organizational chart which consist of one top manager, secretary and five department manager. There are seven of us that worked at the top department of our company and we are actually act as partnership company. The seven of us are also considered as partner in this company. However, we have come up with an agreement in which Nur Iman Ashraf will be our top manager as he has a strong leadership attitude. Nadia Husna is our company secretary where she will be helping Iman Ashraf  to manage and organize company schedule  and everything that is related to file and letter documentation.

Every work related to financial and accounting will be taken care by Connie Marite. She has the knowledge in accounting and financial management that will help our company in our financing. Human resource segment will be manage by Fedelia Umpil and she will have the responsibility towards our lower subordinates. All the workers welfare are under her responsibility. 

Nor Loqman will be act as supervisor in which he will be monitoring all the works in the field and monitor how the workers do their work.

In marketing, Norhamizah Ezati and Amirul Ammar will be working together in doing the marketing of our product. Amirul Ammar will be doing the online promotion as he has much experienced on the Information Technology (IT). Both of them will be cooperating with each other in marketing our company product.

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What Are The Benefits of Fertigation Farming System ?

DR. USAHAWANTANI

                          

Benefits of Fertigation

When choosing a fertilizer program, there are 3 options available to us. The first one is the dry fertilizer that you pick up and spread around your yard.  The second is either a liquid or a dry fertilizer program from one of the fertilizer services.  The third is fertigation. Fertigation has been used for years in the golf and agricultural industries.  Fertigation: ·  pays for itself ·  provides for better plant growth ·  uses less fertilizer ·  can reduce runoff ·  is less labor intensive      When you choose to fertigate with a SarGreen system, you can actually help the environment. You now have complete control over the amount of fertilizer you apply every time you water your yard.   This type of application is called micro-dosing, which is applying very small amounts on a regular basis. By doing this,you only apply what the plant can use.  By using a fast release liquid fertilizer, the water goes into the root zone of the plant where it can be absorbed and used right away. This helps the environment by reducing run off and leaching.  The plants now have a stable environment by not subjecting them to the roller coaster effect of 3-4 time per year fertilizer treatments.This results in a healthier lawn. Stay With Us,          Anda Tanya Kami Coba Jawab --- AMIRUL_AMMAR---

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GROUP 2 

MEMBERS

NORHAMIZAH EZATI BINTI SHAHARIL (S22536)

NADIA HUSNA BT MOHD SAIPUDIN (S22239)

NUR IMAN ASHRAF BIN FARIS RAFIDI (S22654)

AMIRUL AMMAR BIN ZAINUL ABIDIN (S22984)

FEDELIA UMPIL (S22371)

CONNIE MARITE (S22226)

NOR LOQMAN BIN ZULKIFLI (S22494)

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SEMERAH PADI

            Assalamualaikum dan hi bloggers ,

          My name is Norhamizah Ezati a.k.a HaHa and of course I'm the one of Dr. Usahawantani's members that will share an information about our project. we have unite to realize a chilli crop project in University Putra Malaysia Campus Bintulu, Sarawak.

         
       But why chilli ?

          Although chili known as a cliche crop because it easy to handle and short life time of production, we take this advantage to produce a lot of chili by using fertigation method. We've plan to supply the chili to all entrepreneurship from Industri Kecil Sederhana (IKS) that are using chili as a raw material for their product.  
         
          By using fertigation method, we will able to produce very clean and good quality of chili. Yes, we have a lot of competition in Bintulu, but we have promise our customer to provide a better chili to them.

There are a lot benefit of chili by using fertigation method that will be share by our group members later on next post.. Thanks for reading for who are actually reading..😏😏


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