BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
With BDS, women and men cooperators are provided with a wide range of activities to improve their productivity level, encourage growth and development thru training, exposure programs and marketing support.
The goal of BDS is to help develop and enhance the skills of the microfinance members through trainings. The skillsets gained through these trainings will help the members become full-pledged entrepreneurs helping them to have other sources of income.
On June 2011, a survey was conducted to all the members of the microfinance to have a database of all the members regarding their business activity, and the trainings they want to indulge in. The initial trainings for meat processing were conducted on October 10-15, 2011 for the 35 members. The trainees learned the skills in making skinless, lucban and native longanisa, siomai, tocino, beef tapa and hamburger patties.
The cooperative also aims to become one the egg producers in the province so as not to source it out from other provinces.
The gilts and semen for AI are of Camborough breed producing large litters of vigorous and uniform piglets. These are then selected for fattening and for dispersal to farmer members who are into hog raising. The main clients for piglets are the farmers under the Integrated Farming System (IFS).
When it was conceptualized, the BDS is visualized to have a demo farm that will showcase the technology of hog raising and poultry in an organic way. This technology allows the farmers and other members to minimize their expenses in procuring feeds to fatten their hogs.
This was realized with the establishment of a moder hog farm for breeding high quality piglets from prime gilts and a boar purchased from the Pig Improvement Company (PIC) in 2014. The hog farm comprised of serveral buildings that housed the animals in the different stages of gestation.
The farm used the artificial insermination technology for breeding. During the first three years of its operation, the semen for AI came from the boar purchased from PIC. In 2019, the farm procured its materials for AI from outside sources.
POULTRY
BDS started its poultry program for broilers, layers and free range immediately after the establishment of the pig farm. There were two buildings constructed for the laying chickens, starting off with 1,300 pullets for the first building. The number increased with the construction of the second building for layers. Eggs produced are sold at Coopmart branches and other outlets.
The bulk orders for chick broilers and free range depend on the demand by farmers and members who are into poultry raising for meat. BDS keeps a nominal number of broiler and free range since the supply for chich is covered by the farmer producers.
FEEDMILL
Production of feeds for poultry and piggery using a formation tried and tested for its farm animals. Feeds produced become part of the agricultural loan package to members engaged in animal production. When members apply for contract growing through loan, feeds, vitamins and other inputs are also delivered.
COFFEE PRODUCTION
In 2017, BDS ventured in coffee development when it supplied seedlings to farmers in the form of agricultural loans. Farmers from the various towns of Abra and Kalinga availed of this agri-loan from Bangued Credit branch for the purpose of developing their own Arabica coffee plantations. Three years later, the coffee plants are starting to bear fruit and is hoped to be developed further for the farmers’ benefit.
To date, ADTEMPCO-BDS has partnered with Philcafe ACDI-VOCA to further the development of the coffee industry in Abra by establishing a nursery for Robusta coffee which is more suitable in the area.
YELLOW CORN PRODUCTION
This is an agricultural loan which aims to provide raw materials to the Cooperative feed mill. It is also an additional income generating project for farms and is very viable as there is a ready market.
CERBASCILLUM ORGANIC FOLIAR FERTILIZER
It is a food grade, high quality organic fertilizer – a product reached and developed by Dr. Luis N. Cervantes Jr, a former DOST director. Cerbascillum is the result of his over two decades of study on microorganisms and its benefits to agriculture and other industries. ADTEMPCO acquired the rights of its production and distribution because it is fitted to the advocacies of the Cooperative on environmental protection and organic agriculture.
The first Cerbascillum product is deodorizer, a highly valuable product in agriculture and reforestation, livestock and poultry, aquaculture and in protecting the environment such as the rivers and lakes. It is also valuable in treating wastewater, industrial and household wastes and machineries.
These products are being tested in the various farming activities and facilities of ADTEMPCO prior to its distribution tot he public.
The other products under the Cerbascillum line inlcude the organic foliar fertilizer, soil enhancer, pesticide and fungicide.
MUSHROOM PRODUCTION
BDS is always on the lookout for new ways of improving the life of the farmer as a food producer. Oyster mushroom production is one additional farm activity that iwll assure a fresh harvest even when native mushrooms are off-season. In order to demonstrate the viability of mushroom production as another income generating activity, ADTEMPCO has a building built for it for production, demonstration and training.
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