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.
Please confirm how you heard about the Unilever Awards:
Change Maker email
Please confirm your role in the initiative (eg Founder/co-Founder) and your organisational title:
Noli Favila is the co-owner of farm and manages the piggery
Which of the 8 UN Global Goals (Sustainable Development Goals) pre-selected for this competition does your solution relate most closely to? [select all that apply]
No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Clean Water and Sanitation, Affordable and Clean Energy, Climate Action.
Please provide examples of any previous entrepreneurial initiatives you have pioneered.
The piggery up to now has been 100% our own effort.
We now have a boar, 4 sows about to all give birth, and 2 piglets.
We hand built the farm buildings.
Beyond your existing team, who else are you working with to achieve your objectives, eg partners, advisors, mentors?
Philip Maise is an American sailor with his sailboat in the area. He is a friend and helping us submit application and gain ideas.
The Philippine Agriculture Extension Office provides us with ideas and kenaf seeds
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