Empowering tree farmers in Agusan del Sur through alliance building and enhanced access to timber market / Modesto U. Lagumbay, Jr.
Description: 192 leaves : color illustrationsSubject(s): Dissertation note: Public Management Development Program Middle Managers Class Batch 11 Thesis (MMC)--Development Academy of the Philippines. Summary: Caraga Region has been producing 70% of the country's total wood production (DENR 2016). For this reason, the region was declared as the Forest Plantation Corridor in the Philippines by virtue of DENR Administrative Order No. No. 99-13 dated May 3, 1999. More than half (25%) of the total wood production of the region come from the province of Agusan del Sur. This is the reason why the province was selected as the project site. Most of the wood produced by the region are produced from small holder tree farms. Only 3.06 percent is produced by big corporations through large scale forest plantations. Yet small holder tree farmers have not been getting the actual nor reasonable market price of their product at farm gate. This is because of the high cost of harvesting and transport of tree farm products. Key Informant Interview (KII) conducted showed that most of the tree farmers in the project site live below the poverty threshold. The exorbitant harvest and transport cost usually compel them to rely on the financiers/traders for cash advances to defray said operational expenses. This circumstances has been the leverage for the intermediate traders to dictate the buying price of their product. This Re-entry Project was conceptualized to aid the small holder tree farmers increase their income from tree farming by improving their organizational, financial and marketing capacity. The project implementation was subdivided into two major phases, namely: alliance building to pool together individual working capital; and directly linking the alliance building to the market. This strategy has minimized, if not totally eliminated the role of intermediate traders and could increase their income by about PhP357,000.00 per hectare of trees harvested. The alliance/federation formed under the project is currently working to expand their business to include rubber and other similar farm products.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Lagumbay, M. U., Jr. (2017). Empowering tree farmers in Agusan del Sur through alliance building and enhanced access to timber market (Unpublished master's thesis). Public Management Development Program, Development Academy of the Philippines.
Public Management Development Program Middle Managers Class Batch 11 Thesis (MMC)--Development Academy of the Philippines.
Caraga Region has been producing 70% of the country's total wood production (DENR 2016). For this reason, the region was declared as the Forest Plantation Corridor in the Philippines by virtue of DENR Administrative Order No. No. 99-13 dated May 3, 1999. More than half (25%) of the total wood production of the region come from the province of Agusan del Sur. This is the reason why the province was selected as the project site. Most of the wood produced by the region are produced from small holder tree farms. Only 3.06 percent is produced by big corporations through large scale forest plantations. Yet small holder tree farmers have not been getting the actual nor reasonable market price of their product at farm gate. This is because of the high cost of harvesting and transport of tree farm products. Key Informant Interview (KII) conducted showed that most of the tree farmers in the project site live below the poverty threshold. The exorbitant harvest and transport cost usually compel them to rely on the financiers/traders for cash advances to defray said operational expenses. This circumstances has been the leverage for the intermediate traders to dictate the buying price of their product. This Re-entry Project was conceptualized to aid the small holder tree farmers increase their income from tree farming by improving their organizational, financial and marketing capacity. The project implementation was subdivided into two major phases, namely: alliance building to pool together individual working capital; and directly linking the alliance building to the market. This strategy has minimized, if not totally eliminated the role of intermediate traders and could increase their income by about PhP357,000.00 per hectare of trees harvested. The alliance/federation formed under the project is currently working to expand their business to include rubber and other similar farm products.
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