Built for chilli farmers

Why chilli is harder than people who don’t grow it realize

Anthracnose is the headline problem, but it’s never alone. By the time the fruit shows the lesion, the disease has been moving for days. Aphids drop leaf curl virus through the canopy in a week. Powdery mildew shows up after the first wet-then-dry cycle. And because chilli is a small-acreage, high-margin crop, a single bad week takes a real bite out of the year.

The farms that stay ahead of this are doing three things consistently: daily scouting, fast spray response, and tight cost tracking. Peladang is built around exactly those three habits.

A typical day on a Peladang chilli farm

• Morning: scout the plotWorker opens Field Mode on their phone, picks a plot, logs aphid count, marks any suspected anthracnose lesions, takes a photo. Total time: 2 minutes per plot.
• Mid-morning: risk score updatesBehind the scenes, the alert engine combines this morning’s scouting with the next 5 days of weather forecast. If a Critical alert fires, the supervisor gets it on the dashboard.
• Afternoon: spray decisionThe alert tells the supervisor not just “risk is high” but “spray today before the wet evening tomorrow — humidity 85% expected.” The spray happens, the team logs it as an event, inventory drops automatically.
• Evening: harvest logPicked chilli weighed and logged in 3 taps. Quality grade entered. Buyer and price-per-kg captured. Revenue calculated automatically against today’s expenses.

What the farm owner sees at the end of the cycle

Without Peladang: a notebook full of receipts, a rough recollection of yield, a vague sense of profitability.

With Peladang: a Profit Report showing exactly what each plot earned, what it cost, where the costs went (fertilizer vs labor vs pesticide), and how this cycle compared to the previous one. A Selling Price History showing price drift across buyers. A disease alert log showing which conditions threw the platform off and which it caught early.

Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Perak — same platform

Peladang is location-agnostic. The weather forecast is pinned to each farm’s GPS coordinate, so a Cameron Highlands cool-weather chilli operation and a Perak lowland setup both get the right local forecast and the right disease risk calibration.

Free, multi-language, no setup hell

The interface is in Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, English, and 中文. Workers can switch on their own. Setup takes about 5 minutes — add a farm, add a plot, add a planting. No installer. Runs in a browser.

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We’ve published deeper guides on the techniques that work for tropical chilli operations:

• A Practical Guide to Disease Prevention in Tropical Agriculture
• Pest & Disease Risk Scoring — A Practical Guide