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Post-harvest and Value Chain Activities in Pailin Andrew Higgins, Greg Secomb and Ly Bunthoeun

Cambodian Crop Production & Marketing ACIAR Project Project meeting 10-11 th February 2009, Battambang. Post-harvest and Value Chain Activities in Pailin Andrew Higgins, Greg Secomb and Ly Bunthoeun. Objectives. Understanding the value chain Mapping the chain using a bottom up approach

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Post-harvest and Value Chain Activities in Pailin Andrew Higgins, Greg Secomb and Ly Bunthoeun

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  1. Cambodian Crop Production & Marketing ACIAR ProjectProject meeting 10-11th February 2009, Battambang Post-harvest and Value Chain Activities in Pailin Andrew Higgins, Greg Secomb and Ly Bunthoeun

  2. Objectives Understanding the value chain • Mapping the chain using a bottom up approach • Identify relationship structures, logistic flows, economic flows • Identify where the opportunities are Tools for learning and analysis • Database model • Periscope for the chain - Farmers, Middlemen (and others) learning about the chain around them Model scenarios for value chain opportunities • Transport • better utilisation (or sharing) of existing vehicles • targeting priority areas for road improvements • identifying additional “fuel efficient” vehicles that should be adopted • improving the routing of transport • Small farm (or multi-farm) storage & drying facilities • increased market prices versus costs of facilities • how many facilities, and where should they be

  3. Illustration of a Maize Value Chain in Pailin

  4. Illustration of a Maize Value Chain in Pailin

  5. Survey Information Case study cluster has been identified - CARE Cluster 2 • Stung Kach Commune, Sala Krau District, Pailin Municipality Data gathering – Farmer/middlemen • Surveys • A sample of 8-10 farmers from the 12 villages • Further farmers surveyed if needed • Interview all the middlemen operating in cluster • Farmer questionnaire developed and entered in a PDA • Progress by CARE team • About 88 households to date • Mainly surveyed farmers at this stage and about 6 middlemen • Number of middlemen is far more than originally thought • Need comprehensive survey of middlemen to try to untangle this web • We have to learn more about how these middlemen operate

  6. Other Information Gathering Transport, storage, dehulling • Plan to use GPS (on PDA) to collect locations of all the strategic sites in the value chain • Then overlay these points on to existing software applications (ie. ArcMap or Google Maps) to generate a good visual image of the system • CARE have already produced a map of the region for CARE target villages • Have GPS’s some farmer locations, but not all Silo • List of inbound deliveries to the Silo during the EWS and LWS • List of outgoing deliveries

  7. Database Tool MS Access version • Ease of entry for CARE officers • Each sheet represents a segment in the value chain • Useful consolidated storage • Illustrate chain linkages and networks structures Demonstration and education • Walk farmers and middlemen across their value chain

  8. Give 2 Minute MS Access Demonstration

  9. Contacts Greg Secomb Agricultural Advisor CARE - Cambodia Pailin Office Phone - 012 619 043 Email greg.secomb@care-cambodia.org Andrew Higgins Group Leader – Decision Technologies for Sustainability CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems Phone +61 7 3214 2340) Email Andrew.Higgins@csiro.au Thank You

  10. Proposed Activities for 2008/2009

  11. Next Steps Expand the questions in the farmer and middleman survey. Finish off the farmer and middleman surveys. Check with the Pailin Silo about obtaining the Silo information Check with the Ministry of Commerce about obtaining the information about truck deliveries in to Thailand If the truck delivery information cannot be obtain through the MoC or Customs, explore the feasibility of surveying drivers crossing the Thailand/Cambodia boarder. Refine initial MS Access database model. Add a feature to ensure ease of data entry for CARE project staff. Also add a feature, to provide analysis of the supply chain (e.g. show the network relationships) and provide summary information.

  12. Next Steps /2 Obtain more information on the justification of the middleman spending $15,000 on the weighbridge outside Pailin. Check for available economic analysis. Develop statistical and network analysis methods to model and analyse the supply network in the CARE cluster 2. Develop specific scenarios to analyse.

  13. Reflections, learnings, updates for 2009 Supply chain a much more complex networks, than first anticipated or indicated by top down analysis • Data gathering a very complex and time consuming task • Significant benefits though • Just mapping and modelling the chain a significant innovation • Increase effort on this activity Add after more discussions with Greg

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