How To Make PH Rice World-Competitive. 4, Let Cooperatives Take Over

The Dalisay Ricesetup of the Chen Yi Agventures, CYA, owned & operated by husband-and-wife team French-Italian Patrick Renucci and Filipina-Chinese Rachel Tan, is Big Business for Small People – I give the team my Huge Hug! (They also deserve a big book written by me!)

Dalisay Rice was launched with Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie as guest speaker on 11 September 2019 in Manila. This innovative PH rice product falls under the #1 paradigm Modernizing Agriculture among 8 paradigms that Manong Willie is using to guide all of PH Agriculture, as head of the Department of Agriculture, DA.

Above image, lower half: My literal-literary 269-page ebook Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained dwells on Manong Willie's "The Eight Paradigms" within his "New Thinking for Agriculture." Email me for a free copy on/before midnight 17 September 2019; after that, it's US$17/P900/copy.

Above image, upper half: My photograph of a Board meeting of the Nagkaisa Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Asingan, Pangasinan; Chair Roger Daranciang is at right, green shirt. As a Board member, I should know whereof I speak. And how successful has Nagkaisa been, you ask. My short answer: Someone has invested a huge amount of money, never mind how much.

I look now at a multi-purpose cooperative, MPC, not simply a farmer association or a credit cooperative, as one way of expressing Manong Willie's #4 paradigm: "Consolidating the farms." Not in fact but in effect, by consolidating the operations, as has been done with maximum effect by CYA in Alangalang, Leyte, that gave birth to Dalisay Rice.

In Santa Barbara, Pangasinan, not far from Asingan, my hometown, there is a Rice Processing Complex, RPC, that someone told me last March when I attended the 8th National Rice Technology Forum ceremonies at Asingan's town plaza, was running Off and On, meaning it was not working full time as it should. That RPC is worth US$3.325 million, or at least P170 million!

In any case, our coop Nagkaisa was a candidate recipient of an RPC that was worth something like P5-6 million about 7 years ago, but corruption set in – outside Nagkaisa.

Now, learning some business sense from the Dalisay Rice continuing success story of the CYA couple, of which I have written quite a bit – read my latest essay, "How To Make PH Rice World-Competitive. 3, Learn From Dalisay Rice, Self-Sufficiency" (16 September 2019, Ani Kitá, ianikita.blogspot.com). The point is that I see an RPC, along with other necessary farm machineries, being run by a multipurpose coop like Nagkaisa as perfect for managing farms of members as if they belonged to a corporate farm, so that they can enjoy economies of scale like the experience of Dalisay Rice has shown.

With the backing of the new DA leadership, PH government institutions, including banks, not to mention those of the private sector, should now step in, finance and train each MPC to run an RPC, systematize farming to decrease costs much and increase income more, to the point that the farmers as members of the coop can escape poverty permanently!@517