MONITORING VISIT TO DAVAO MANGO FARMERS
December 11-16, 2012
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I. FARMERS MEETING:
- On December 11-15, 2012, Donardo Angeles-The Producer’s Developmet Officer / Agriculturist of Preda Pro Fair Trade visited the Davao Mango Farmers supplying carabao mangoes. Two (2) new women’s orghaization were also met. To date we already have 5 mango growers totalling to 74 farmers having 2,084 trees with estimated harvest of 455,690 kilos..During the meeting the following were discussed:
- Evaluation of Fair Trade programs and Preda Fair Trade Orientation.
- Monitoring of Price through texting-The producer can directy text Ms. Merlinda of Profood-Davao to know the current buying price of mango per kilo.
- Marking of Boxes- The boxes of the mango harvest to be delivered to Preda-Profood is to be mark containing Preda FairTrade, Name of farmer, Date of harvest and box number.( please find attached sample copy)
- The Preda staff checked the yellow card- the individual mango selling record to be verified at Profood record.
During the visit, monitoring of projects where the farmers used their Fair Trade premium was done. Among the projects they invested their premium were sari-sari store and hog raising. Some used dividend in repairing/rehabilitating their house
The table below shows the date & place of meeting and the number of participants:
|
GROUP |
DATE OF MEETING |
PLACE OF MEETING |
NO. OF PARTICIPANTS |
| Banas 1 Women’s Association (BAIWA) | December 11,2012 | Beth Sapatan Residence | 13 |
| United Women’s Farmers Organization (UWFO) | December 12, 2012 | Remelda Barluado Residence | 13 |
| Bayabas Women’s Group | December 13, 2012 | Profood Panabo Mango Warehouse | 8 |
| Kapalong & Asuncion Mango Farmers | December 14, 2012 | Agustin Residence | 13 |
| Panabo Group | December 15, 2012 | Amay Residence | 16 |
II. VALIDATION OF FARM MAPS & MANGO TREES
Farm visit was conducted to verify the mango trees . The farm map on the information form was compared to the actual mango trees on farm.
|
GROUP |
DATE OF VISIT |
NO. OF FARM VISITED |
| Banas 1 Women’s Association (BAIWA) | December 11, 2012 |
7 |
| United Women’s Farmers Organization (UWFO) | December 12, 2012 |
10 |
| Bayabas Women’s Group | December 13, 2012 |
8 |
| Kapalong & Asuncion Mango Farmers | December 14, 2012 |
4 |
| Panabo group | December 15, 2012 |
5 |
In Kapalong & Asuncion Group, monitoring of mango trees damaged by Typhoon Pablo was conducted. A total of 36 mango trees are damaged or fell down. Estimated of 25,000 kilos of mango fruits were loss.
III. VERIFICATION OF MANGO DELIVERIES
In preparation for the awarding of Fair Trade Premium this year, I conducted the validation of the mango deliveries. The record I got from the yellow card was then compared in the record of the Profood Warehouse in Panabo & Toril. For the Period August 1 to December 15, 2012 Below are the summary of deliveries per organization and the Fair Trade Premium.
|
GROUP |
NO. OF FARMERS |
No. Of KILOS |
AMOUNT OF PREMIUM |
| Banas Women’s Association (BAIWA) |
1 |
5,000 |
Php 10,000.00 |
| Panabo Mango Farmers |
4 |
14,250 |
Php 28,500.00 |
| Kapalong & Asuncion Mango Farmers |
8 |
17,780 |
Php 35,560.00 |
| TOTAL |
13 |
86,145 |
Php 74,060.00 |
V. MEETING WITH CARLOS CONTRERAS
On December 15, 2012, I met with Mr. Carlos Contreras – mango consolidator of Profood in Mindanao area (Panabo warehouse). We discussed the marking of boxes with PREDA Fair Trade. Also information of the name of farmer, date of delivery and box number is also included in the label. This is with regards to traceability. It was agreed that Profood cebu will be notified by Joel Cahatol (Panabo warehouseman) thru the fax transmittal of mango to be delivered ( number of boxes for Preda will be noted at the fax.
There are three (3) possible areas for expansion ; area of Carmen, Sto. Thomas and Tagum City.
Prepared by:
DONARDO ANGELES 12/19/12
Producers Dev’t Officer
