Built for paddy farmers

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

Paddy is Malaysia’s most-grown crop — over 670,000 hectares across Kedah, Perlis, Perak, and Selangor. But smallholder farmers running 1–3 hectares face the same disease pressure as large estates with none of the monitoring infrastructure. Rice blast can wipe out a plot in days if scouting is delayed. Brown planthopper (BPH) moves field to field and builds pesticide resistance. And because paddy runs on two seasons a year (MR1 and MR2), a single bad cycle hurts badly.

The farms that stay ahead scout consistently, log their spray decisions, and track what each season actually costs versus what it returns. Peladang is built around those three habits.

A typical day on a Peladang paddy farm

• Morning: scout the plotsWorker opens Field Mode, walks the bunds, logs any water level changes, flags suspected blast lesions or BPH egg masses, takes a photo. Takes 3 minutes per plot. No paper form.
• Mid-morning: risk score updatesThe alert engine combines today’s scouting data with the 5-day forecast. If humidity is high and temperatures are right for blast, the supervisor sees a risk alert before the disease establishes.
• Afternoon: spray or hold decisionThe alert tells the supervisor not just “blast risk is elevated” but which specific plots are at highest risk based on their scouting history and local weather. Spray events are logged instantly — pesticide used, quantity, cost, plots covered.
• End of season: harvest and profit reportYield logged per plot. Selling price to BERNAS or direct buyer captured. Fertilizer, pesticide, and labor costs from the full season tallied automatically. One tap to see exactly what each plot earned.

What the farm owner sees at the end of the season

Without Peladang: a bag full of receipts, a rough sense of how many bags were harvested, no clear picture of which plots were profitable.

With Peladang: a Profit Report showing each plot's yield, cost breakdown (seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, labor), and net profit for MR1 vs MR2. A disease alert log showing exactly which threats appeared, when, and how they were handled. And a record that helps you apply for MADA/DOA support or prove inputs to your buyer.

MADA, KADA, IADA Kemasin-Semerak — same platform

Peladang works across all paddy growing regions in Malaysia. The weather forecast is pinned to each farm's GPS coordinates — so a Kedah granary farm and a Terengganu river delta operation both get the right local forecast and the right blast risk calibration for their specific conditions.

Free, multi-language, no setup

The app runs in Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, English, and 中文. Workers can switch on their own. Setup takes about 5 minutes — add a farm, add your plots, start a planting. No installer. Runs in any browser, on any phone.

Guides for paddy farmers

We’ve published deeper guides on the key challenges paddy farmers face:

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