Annex 1A
SUGARCANE FARMER’S INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE
DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
Name of Farmer/Respondent:
Status:
Number of family members:
Address:
No. of years in farming (Sugarcane):
Total farm size:
Land ownership (✓):
Owned ( )
Age:
Sex (✓): M ( ) F ( )
Contact #:
Farm location:
Tenant ( )
Leased ( )
Instructions: Please fill out all the information needed and write a tick in the space provided (✓).
1. How many years are you in farming or planting sugarcane ?
1-5 years ( )
6-10 years ( )
11-15 years ( )
16 years above ( )
2. What is your preferred variety of sugarcane in your area?
PSR 00-34 ( )
PSR 00-343 ( )
PSR 00-161 ( ) VMC 84-524 ( ) VMC 84-947 ( )
VMC 86-550 ( )
VMC 88-354 ( )
PHIL 99-1793 ( )
3. Aside from sugarcane what is your other commodity in your area?
Commodity
Sugarcane
Allocated Land Area
Number of Year in Production
Note: Consider also those farmers who do inter-cropping or plant different crops per season (e.g., vegetables after rice).
4. Cropping per year?
5. Why did you choose this kind of commodity?
II. Source of Inputs:
Inputs
Source and
Location of
Suppliers
No. of Suppliers
Quantity used per
year
Constraints
1.Planting Materials
2.Fertilizer
3.Pesticides
4. Others (specify)
Constraints on Supply, Quality & Accessibility of Inputs
Action taken or Potential Solutions to Address constraints
6.Does your Supplier also provide additional services, (ex. demonstration on how to apply inputs: trainings, etc.? Yes ( ) No ( )
7. Is the production area accessible by the transportation? Yes ( ) No ( ).
If no, how it will be accessed? By motor ( ) By labor ( ) By walked
8. What is the variety of Sugarcane?
9. Production Volume of Sugarcane?
III. Production and Employees
Sugarcane Production Process
No. Employees:
F
M
10. No. of workers?
11. Total cost of expenses in your first cropping?
12. If yes, what are the actions taken to address waste management
13. How many months/days to harvest after planting your sugarcane?
14. Who sets the selling price? And how is it set?
Salary
Total Cost
15.. How do you contact your buyer/s?
16. Do you monitor your area regularly? Yes ( )
No ( )
17. What are the pest found in your sugarcane?
Do you use or apply pesticides? Yes ( ) No ( )
18. Did you ever have any major losses on your commodity? Yes ( ) No ( )
19. Did you still using any traditional method in sugarcane farming? Yes ( ) No ( )
Other cost of production:
EXPENSE ITEM
COST
INPUTS
PRICE
7890[=]\7 A. Planting
b. Fertilizer
c. Pesticides
d.
e.
Labor
#Workers
a.
COST
Materials
Rate/Worker
COST
Planting
b. Transportation
c. Rent or lease
20. How many months to harvest after planting?
21. Volume of production, per cropping /year?
IV. Sugarcane Buyer
Buyer
a.
b.
c.
Location
Mode of Payment
Services provided by the Buyers
Type of Buyer: (A) Assembler, (W)Wholesaler, (R)Retailer, (P)Processor
Profile of Top Buyer
Name: ____________
Location: _________
No. of Workers
Type of Business
Provides Advances
Yes
Sometimes
No
Reliability
Always
Sometimes
Very poor
Length of relation
Long terms
Midterm
Short term(spot)
What are the Buyer’s Requirements (Vol & Quality)
Are you able to comply with the Buyer’s Requirements? If no, explain why not constrains:
22. Do you share information with other farmers who produce the same commodity? Yes ( ) No ( )
If no, why?
23. Do you have post-harvest facilities? Yes ( ) No ( )
If yes, what is its capacity?
If no, where do you go to avail of post-harvest services?
How much do you pay for these services? Specify.
24. What are other known markets accessible to the sugarcane farmers?
Market Outlet
Volume
Price
25. Are you getting financing for your business? Yes ( ) No ( )
If yes, how much and what is/ are your source/s of Financing:
Product or Quality
Specification
Number of Farmers