Backyard Piggery: Hungry piggies like kenaf leaves: Farmer likes profits!
Quezon, PhilippinesQuezon, Philippines
Year Founded:
Project Stage:
2013
Organization type:
for profit
Idea
Budget:
$10,000 - $50,000
- Business
- Community development
- Economic development
- Food security
- Hunger
- Poverty alleviation
- Rural development
- Sustainable development
- Animal rights
- Eco Products
- Global Warming
- Energy conservation
- Green business
- Pollution
- Renewable energy
- Rural
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainability
- Sanitation
- News & knowledge
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Look what happens to the economics of my farm when I become a green farmer.
100% grain meal 60% meal 40% kenaf
Sale 100 kilos @ 90 peso / kilo 9,000 peso Sale 100 kilos @ 90 peso / kilo 9,000 peso
-Cost of meal 5,000 peso -Cost of meal 3,000 peso
-Cost of piglet 2,000 peso -Cost of piglet 2,000 peso
Gross profit per piglet = 2,000 peso Gross profit per piglet = 4,000 peso
This is a 100% Increase in profit, BEFORE considering kenaf stalk sales as added sale.
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
Until now this is in the ideal stage. The primary impact has been to discover that it is possible to completely change the farm simply by adding kenaf as a crop planted between our existing coconut trees. We are excited about how it completely changes the economics of operation.
Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?
Should other farmers copy what we do, it will greatly reduce the amount of valuable grain consumed to fatten pigs to market. All this extra grain represents food that could be consumed by humans instead of pigs. Therefore, shifting the pigs onto a mixture of natural leaves both lowers the cost of the meat overall, and increases the amount of grain available for humans.
When there are enough farmers converted to this method we will have a large enough base of kenaf in production to solve both the problem of fuel for cooking fires and provide natural fiber production.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
Kenaf is grown mostly for the fiber only and the leaves are ignored.
The greatest difference here is the leaves are used for meat production.
Founding Story
Like many farmers our family lands date far back in history and have been divided and divided each generation.
We now have just 4.5 hectares of farm land. My brother tends the coconut trees, and I have been creating a pig farm.
Team
The family:
The Favila Brothers
Outside volunteer consultant Philip Maise
We plan to grow adding two more local workers to handle the kenaf production.
Value Chain: Where does your work fit into the apparel value chain? [check all that apply]
Raw Materials.
Your Role: What is your relationship to the apparel industry? [check all that apply]
Farmer or Farmer Association Representative.
Target Population: What stakeholder groups do you engage or empower in your work? [check all that apply]
Farmer or Farmer Associations.
Lever for Change: Select up to 3 ways your work is helping to transform the industry.
Advocacy, Capacity Building, Technology.
Does your project utilize any of the innovative design principles below?
Unite More than Voice: Tap into Community Capital and Collective Resources.
Innovation Inspiration: When you first conceived of your project, did you think of it as applicable to the apparel industry?
no
If you answered "no" to the previous question, which industry was your project originally aimed at transforming?
Food.
● Replicating in the Apparel Industry: If your project didn't initially target the apparel industry, how are you specifically tailoring it to do so now?
Integration of growing natural fibers as part of pig farming
Are you nurturing or inspiring others to be changemakers? If so, how?
Yes, I am well known at the agricultural extension office and by other pig farmers
● Tell us about the partnerships that enhance your approach. How have you collaborated with others in the industry to increase your impact?
My boar is highly in demand to breed with other pigs so I see many other pig farmers
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