Bangon Mini-Farms Project - General Carlos P. Romulo

Bangon Mini-Farms Project
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Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
What is it?
A systems approach to livelihood devt consisting of:
• Training –Technology Transfer – Execution Workshops
• Showing how 1,000 sqm farms with 24 sqm pig house
• Using natural, organic and microbial technology
• With support organization, networked into supply chain
Can end HUNGER and POVERTY
- 2 biggest problems in Philippines today
- Establish a RESILIENCE plan and mindset
- One farmer family at a time.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Why?
• Personal Analysis of Surveys and Sense of Unease
- Intractable block of 25-35% rated as Poor or Hungry
- Poverty Threshold: PHP 10,000 /month (USD 220)
• 50th Anniversary of LANDBANK
- Slogan: Ang Bangkong May Damdaming Bayan
- The Bank That Loves The Country!
- My challenge: If so, address the 2 biggest problems.
• Climate Change: Typhoons Ondoy, Pablo, Yolanda…
- More and Worse
Things CANNOT be as usual
- Fighting Hunger/Poverty MUST be based on Resilience
- Hence, the project name: BANGON !
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
How?
Learnings from:
- Bank’s many small-farm failures and
- usually-successful large agri-business accounts;
- Personal experience in many industries and countries
Distilled and adapted to Bangon Mini-Farms:
1.  NO single crop:
- Average farm size in Philippines: 6,700 sqm
- Continue w/ usual but allot 1,000 sqm to Bangon
- Integrated product line w/ different gestation periods
2.  NO single buyer:
- Each sector establishes own farmers’ market.
- Partners: LGU feeding needs. Supply agrmts.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
3.  NO single or specialized use:
- Items produced are part of daily food needs
4.  YES to innovation: Simple but disruptive technologies
- Production system: protocols, using local materials
- Tech transfer (Set of workshops up to execution):
•  2 day training adjacent to 1,000 sqm pilot farm
•  3 follow-ups (execution sessions) ~6 weeks apart:
o  1st : Review field preparations, organic tools
o  2nd: Test production of veggies, pigs
o  3rd : Test marketing and full pig-growing cycle
•  Farm field audits.
- Localized Topics: 1 sqm food garden: cities, resettlers
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
5.  YES to organization and coordination:
- Pilot Farm: Sector Head / Market Anchors / Tech Svcs
- Clustering of participants = Cluster Head
- Functions: Market Demand Analysis: Own / Supermkts
Production Allocation, Planting Schedule
Problem Solving (Weather Mitigation)
6.  YES to supply chain and direct access to markets.
- Enable farmers to sell at retail or wholesale price.
7.  YES to proper financing of all links in the chain.
AIM: To successfully market everyday food items at
competitive price, healthier quality, lower production cost.
- Competitive advantage for small farmers now and with
2015 ASEAN integration.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Nitrogen Fixers
Greenhouse
Vegetables
Fruit
Strip
Fruit
Strip
Herb & Kitchen
Garden
Free-Range
Chicken
Fish
Pond
Natural
Piggery
Agro/Fruit Trees
(wind breakers)
Propagation
Area
Meditation
Sanctuary
Farmer’s
Cob House
Agro/Fruit Trees
(wind breakers)
1,000 sq.m. model mini-farm
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bigger Poultry, Piggery,
Aquaculture and
Vegetable Production
…with an Eco-Park
Usual Scale-Up: mini-farm (1,000 sqm) to commercial or
community SME production (1 hectare)
Bangon Style: Bring in more farmer-partners x1,000 sqm ea.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
From a Mini-Farm...
To a Cluster of Farms...
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
To an Eco-Village
MARKET
MARKET
MARKET
TRAINING
SUPPLY
LANDBANK
MARKET
MARKET
Food Supply Chain
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Food Supply Chain
INPUT
PRODUCTION
Option A:
-Workshops
- Bank Financing -Protocols
Others:
-Field Audits
- Grants-in-Kind
OUTPUT
Option A:
- Farmers Mkts
Others:
- Supply Agmts
- Feeding Prog.
N.B. Option A are factors within the control of the Bank
and the Supply Chain to put the program in effect.
Others are enhancers, thru partnerships, to raise
probability of success.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
PARTICULARS
Financial
Projections:
Can be as high as
Php16,200*
(US$360)
monthly income
for farmer on pigs
and vegetables
alone.
PIGS
Sales
Natural-Pig-(5-heads-x-90-kg-x-P100/kg)
Vegetables
Pechay-(600-kg-x-2-cycles-x-P35/kg)
Talong-(600-kg-x-2-cycles-x-P32.50/kg)
Gross%Sales
Less:-Operating-Expenses
Production-Cost
Piglet-(5-heads-@-P3,000)
Seeds
Feeds-(20-bags-@-P1,350)
Organic-Input-Supplies
Depreciation-(Fixed-Assets-P28,500-/-3-yrs-or-9-cycles-@-4months)
Sub4Total%Production%Cost
Plus:-
Insurance-Premium-(4%-on-Pig-Pen-P15k-+-Piglets-P12.5k-+-vegetables)
Hauling-Cost-(450-kg-pigs-+-1,200-kg-@-P1-per-kg)
PHP-----45,000.00
PHP-----42,000.00
PHP-----39,000.00
PHP%%%126,000.00
PHP-----15,000.00
PHP-------1,000.00
PHP-----27,000.00
PHP-------2,500.00
PHP-------3,170.00
PHP%%%%%48,670.00
PHP-------2,400.00
PHP-------1,650.00
Total%Operating%Expenses
PHP%%%%%52,720.00
Gross%Income
PHP%%%%%73,280.00
Less:-
PHP-------1,950.00
Interest-Expense-(6%-p.a.-on-P65k-loan,-over-6-months-tenor)
NET%INCOME
PHP%%%%%71,330.00
Less:
PHP-------5,700.00
PHP-------3,375.00
PHP-------1,500.00
PHP-------1,000.00
Plus:
Rice-Supply-(3-sacks-purchased-@-P1,900)
Land-Preparation
Income-from-sale-of-manure-fertilizer-(15-x-50kg-bags-@-P100)
Food-Savings-from-use-of-diet-crop-(P250/month-over-4-months)
PHP------(6,575.00)
(*subject to validation
of assumptions in each
locality.)
NET%INCOME%per%cycle:%Farmer-as-Landowner/Producer/Wholesaler
PHP%%%%%64,755.00
ROI%after%Interest%Expense%and%Miscellaneous%Items
ROI%before%Interest%Expense%and%Miscellaneous%Items
74.32%
84.11%
Monthly%Income%for%Farmer*%(Net%Income%/%4%months)
PHP%%%%%16,188.75
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
1.  Capoocan (Jan 9-11)
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
1.  Capoocan (Jan 9-11)
2.  Tacloban (Feb 26-27)
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 
6. 
Capoocan (Jan 9-11)
Tacloban (Feb 26-27)
Palo (Mar 26-27)
Marabut (May 6-7) (deferred)
Salcedo (May 8-9) (deferred)
Tabango (May 21-22)
Now, 6 months later: 4 of 6 sectors under way. 2 deferred.
-1 completed: 63 associations, 22 municipalities, 426 farmer-partners
-3 in process: potentially, another 470 farmer-partners
-3 requests pending: potentially 2,000 farmer- or teacher-partners.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
LEYTE and SAMAR:
1.  Capoocan
2.  Tacloban City
3.  Palo
4.  Marabut-Lauan
5.  Salcedo-McArthur
6.  Tabango-Palompon
OTHER SITES:
7.  Asturias, Cebu
8.  Cateel, Davao Or.
9.  Bacolod
10.  Pampanga
11.  Tarlac
12.  Naga, CamSur
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
The Invitation to Workshop Participants:
•  We’re not telling you to do this.
•  But showing you
- HOW to do it.
- ALL inputs and outputs, and linking them.
- WHAT CAN BECOME.
•  You can then decide for yourself and your family.
The Invitation to Partners:
•  Provide inputs for 2 cycles, or access to markets.
•  Transform Lives and Remote Communities.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)
November 8, 2013
Bangon s 1st response
January 9, 2014
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Alpha-Sector
Workshop:
Capoocan, Leyte
Jan. 9-11, 2014
Bangon Bravo-Sector
Workshop:
Tacloban City, Leyte
Feb. 26-27, 2014
Bangon Alpha-Sector
1st Follow-Up:
Capoocan, Leyte
Feb. 28, 2014
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Alpha Sector
Workshop:
Capoocan, Leyte
Jan. 9-11, 2014
Bangon Alpha Sector
1st Follow-Up:
Capoocan, Leyte
Feb. 28, 2014
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Charlie Sector
Workshop:
Palo, Leyte
March 26-27, 2014
Bangon Bravo Sector
1st Follow-Up:
Tacloban City, Leyte
April 10, 2014
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Alpha Sector:
2nd Follow-Up
Session
Capoocan, Leyte
April 11, 2014
Bangon Alpha Sector:
Ormoc Cluster
Farm Audit
Ormoc, Leyte
April 12, 2014
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Alpha Sector:
Kananga Cluster
Farm Audit
Kananga, Leyte
April 12, 2014
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Bangon Resilience Measures vs Climate, Hunger, Poverty
-  Multi-crop with different gestation periods
- Food for own family ALWAYS available.
-  Cash flow restarted within 30-45 days.
-  Organic, microbial farming techniques
-  Concoct from local materials: cheaper, eco-friendly. Local reliance.
-  Practices:
-  Farm orientation vis elements: Earth, Water, Wind and Sun.
-  Wind breaks. Carbonized rice hull. Row covers. Drip Irrigation.
-  Increase seed propagation by 20% during rainy season.
-  Multi-buyers, Multi-Markets: Always able to sell.
-  Support Organization linked into Integrated Supply Chain
-  Financing and Insurance (PCIC-farmers / AGFP-lenders)
Resilience = “Bamboo Strategy”. Bend but not broken.
If uprooted, bangon and carry on.
Bangon Mini-Farms Project: “Million Farmers Rising”
Waging War on Hunger
and Poverty via Resilience
-Multi-crop, multi-market
-Not just Training but
Tech Transfer & Execution
-Organic, microbial farming
-Supply Chain Systems with
Support Organizations
From Inputs to Production to Markets.
Bangon: Ending Hunger and Poverty,
One Farmer-Family at a time!
… Million Farmers Rising