Bangon Mini-Farms Project

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DOMINGO I. DIAZ
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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.

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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:
- Banks 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.

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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

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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.

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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

Farmers
Cob House
Agro/Fruit Trees
(wind breakers)

1,000 sq.m. model mini-farm

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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

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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

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The Invitation to Workshop Participants:

Were 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.

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Bangon Mini-Farms Project: Million Farmers Rising

Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)
November 8, 2013

Bangon s 1st response

January 9, 2014

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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

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Bangon Charlie Sector

Workshop:
Palo, Leyte
March 26-27, 2014

Bangon Bravo Sector

1st Follow-Up:
Tacloban City, Leyte
April 10, 2014

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Bangon Alpha Sector:

2nd Follow-Up
Session
Capoocan, Leyte
April 11, 2014

Bangon Alpha Sector:

Ormoc Cluster
Farm Audit
Ormoc, Leyte
April 12, 2014

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Bangon Alpha Sector:

Kananga Cluster
Farm Audit
Kananga, Leyte
April 12, 2014

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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