Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Batangas Visit



First on our agenda was to visit Rumandan Farms. It is literally a visit, because it is breeze dealing with this grower. From owner Gene, assistant Karen to farm manager Luis, it had always been easy transactions. Luis should find raising Sunshines "sisiw"....he was a Darag Coordinator for PCARRD for quite sometime and dealt with Doc Synan in the studies. He still maintained his Darag production, but as he says, the commercial quantity to serve consumers is still far, plus the fact that you can't predict harvest.

Until now, he gets and shares pointers with Doc Synan (grab a copy of Agriculture Magazine of Manila Bulletin for August 2008), making raising Sunshines easier for him.

Luis is in the process of opening a new range area and now plans to have a quadrant for every batch. He was surprised how this present batch of 200 wiped out grass in an area of 150sqm in less than 2weeks!

We didn't plan to have lunch there, but the aroma of kalderetang Sunshine from the kitchen, across the nipa hut where we sat, was calling or names distinctly. The fact that we hardly have rice with our meals, made the table spread seem too much. Well, the magic word was "seem"...na seemot ang table :)

We knew we will be there more often, after tasting Edwin's cooking and because they will load more chicks at more regular intervals.

Next stop was a farm near Malarayat Golf. Suggestions were made to correct feeding and housing as brooding stage wasn't managed well. But the chicks were so happy when we taught caretaker to chop a banana trunk and feed it to them...they were so excited.

Last stop was calling on dealers for the area as we had been getting a lot of inquiries from Batangas. We wanted to make sure that the link to the backyard farmers are established.

12 comments:

  1. Baka pwede po malaman kung saan sa Rosario, Batangas matatagpuan itong Rumandan Farm...Gusto ko kc makita farm nila for some business ideas. Thank You!

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  2. @ crislipa, We are scheduled to visit that farm again in August. A seminar is being set on that day too. I will post details so you may attend the seminar as well :)

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  3. I have attended ur seminar at Panyesenan Lipa city but I will let others know about your incoming seminar thereat so that they can attend. Thank You!

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  4. @ crislipa, Thank you. I will post schedule when finalized.

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  5. Sana daw po kung maaari mga Saturday para makapunta ...tks!

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  6. Tanong ko lang po baka meron kayong alam na magaling pampaalis o pampatay ng hanep sa kulungan ng manok...Malinis naman po siya kaya lang di maiwasang mabasa ang beddings kc malimit malakas ang ulan...

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  7. @ crislipa, I presume the seminar will be at the Rumandan Farm. I will post details pag final na.

    Hindi pa bago ang ipa na nakuha mo? Hindi ka ba nagpapalit ng beddings? Dapat maglagay ka ng tabing, pero siguraduhin mo na mag daloy ng sariwang hangin. Hindi dapat nababasa ng ulan ang beddings, kasi ibig sabihin nun ay nababasa din ang mga sisiw.

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  8. Ok, na po ako sa pagpapalaki ng manok, now my problem is market....Nagdala ako ng sampol sa palengke for canvass, 1.7kg po ung dala ko ang tawad nila 100 pesos. Nakakatawa, ang laki ng puhunan, ngayon medyo payat na yung mga alaga ko. Kung dati 1.7kg, ngayon 1.4 na lang kc tinipid ko na sa patuka. Wala kc mag-haul, hirap pala ibenta.

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  9. For Rumandan farm baka gusto nila i-haul ung mga manok ko mayroon siguro silang market...Taga-Rosario din po ako...

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  10. @ crislipa, it does take time to develop the market. Hindi yan nakukuha ng minsanan or biglaan.

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  11. Malaki po ang gastos, kelangan malaki puhunan.

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  12. @ crislipa, kailangan start small and grow with the business

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