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R 6.1: Production and Product Supply Organizing Presentation. Step 6 Production/Product Supply Organizing. Farmer Alliances for Resource-Strengthening and Marketing (FARM) Program. Step 6 Production and/or Product Supply Organizing. Important!.
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R6.1: Production and Product Supply Organizing Presentation Step 6 Production/Product Supply Organizing Farmer Alliances for Resource-Strengthening and Marketing (FARM) Program
Step 6 Production and/or Product Supply Organizing Important! the “make or break” in the farmers collective marketing
Review: Step 4 (Cluster Organization) • Organize farmers in clusters (10-15) for collective mktg. • Cluster as a product supply unit • Clusters collaborating as building blocks of supply
Processors Traders JFC Marketing group Tarlac Alabat SWG: LGU. MFI, NGO, Academe Cluster Leader Cluster Leader Cluster Leader Cluster Leader Cluster Leader Cluster Leader Cluster Leader Cluster Leader The calamansiagroenterprise clusters
Review: Step 5 (Bus. Planning and Mobilization) • BUSINESS PLAN • Market Plan • Supply Plan • Management Plan • Financial Plan • BUSINESS IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULES • RESOURCE ACCESSING PLAN
Market Plan • Main Challenges • Effective Product Consolidation • Cost Management (Competitiveness) Supply Plan Cluster Cluster Cluster
Challenge 1: Effective Consolidation • Organization: clusters as building blocks • Knowledge, skills and values in agroenterprise • Production and postharvest quality management system
Organization Farm Production & Postharvest Management Systems Skills Knowledge Values
Challenge 2: Cost Management in the Value Chain • Lower Production Cost • More competitive Production Post-Harvest Marketing Yield Quality (Recovery) Cost Risk
Needs Farmers who will be responsible to ensure supply matches the market commitment: • Can set and production targets and commitments • Willing to learn new technologies that decrease cost, increase quality, increase yield and make them competitive • Understand cost and returns, will work out financial needs, and collaborate with business service providers for efficiency
Step 6 – Process Flow for Facilitators • Formulate a production and postharvest quality management guide for each cluster member with cost and returns Ensure that the clusters are decided on technologies to incorporate in the farming practice • Install crop monitoring procedures in the cluster • Come up with a cluster production program by filling up a planting and/or harvest calendar • Come up with a product supply forecast for market negotiation a month before the first product delivery to the buyer