Know what each plot actually earns

“I think this plot is profitable” isn’t a business plan

Most smallholder farms in Malaysia don’t know which plot makes money and which one loses it. The fertilizer goes on the truck, the harvest goes to the buyer, and at the end of the season the answer is a feeling. “Chili was good this year.” “The Cameron plot is tough.” That feeling is sometimes right. Often it’s wrong by a margin big enough to matter.

The fix isn’t complicated. You just need three things logged: what went in, what came out, and what each side cost. Peladang makes that logging fast enough that workers actually do it.

What gets tracked

• Expenses, line-by-lineEvery cost — fertilizer, pesticides, labor, fuel, irrigation, anything — logged with category, supplier, invoice number, and (optionally) a photo of the receipt. Multi-line items handled natively.
• Linked to plantings, not just farmsAn expense can be attached to a specific planting cycle, not just the farm. This is what makes per-cycle profitability possible.
• Inventory deductions automaticWhen you log fertilizer use, the inventory balance updates. No double-entry. The expense report and the inventory module agree.
• Harvest revenue with selling priceLog harvest weight and price per kg per batch. Quality grading captured. The platform calculates revenue automatically.

The reports that fall out of it

Once the data is in, the reports write themselves:

• Profit Report — revenue minus expenses per planting, with a clear winners/losers list.
• Selling Price History — price per kg over time for each crop, so you can spot drift and renegotiate with buyers.
• Expense Categorization — see which input class (fertilizer, labor, pesticides) is eating your margin.
• Budget vs Actual on each planting — set a budget at the start of a cycle, watch it drift in real time.

For multi-farm operations

If you run more than one farm, the financial module is where Peladang stops being a logbook and starts being a management tool. You can filter every report by farm, by date range, by crop, by category. The all-expenses page is a single view across every farm you own — useful for tax filing and bank conversations.

Privacy

Your financial data is yours. We never sell it. Anonymized aggregates (e.g., “average fertilizer cost per hectare for chili in Pahang”) feed the ecosystem benchmarks — but no individual farm’s numbers are ever shown to anyone else.