Sustainable Modern Agriculture
SAGIP-SAKA
Improve
Farmer’s and
Fisher’s
“Quality of
Life”
• Increase Income
• Increase Productivity
• Increase knowledge,
processing/marketing skills
• Generate jobs
Sustainable
Modern
Farming
Communities
Attainment of
Food Security
/ SelfSufficiency
Photo/Painting by Dante Hipolito
• Linkages to market, government
institutions, and other CSOs
• Government & private sector
active partnership
• Become a mainstream DA
Program similar to Young Farmers
Program
• Good Agriculture Practice
Standards (GAPS)
• Agri Products Net Exporter
Sagip Saka is an advocacy that aims to
achieve sustainable modern agriculture
and food security by transforming
agricultural communities to reach their
full potential, improving farmers’ and
fishers’ quality of life, and bridging
gaps through public-private
partnerships.
“Sagip Saka is meant to give agriculture and fisheries
the primacy that it deserves by focusing on improving
the quality of life of our farmers and fisherfolk and, in
doing so, building sustainable farming communities
nationwide as a means to achieve food security.
Only through strong public-private partnerships can
we achieve this.
Our farmers and our fishers are the backbone of the
nation.”
What are these Gaps?
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Access to Credit / Investment
Infrastructure
Access to Markets
Research and Development
Organizing
Quality Assurance and Consistency of Supply
Sagip Saka Framework
Farmers and Fisherfolk Today
57 years old
Improved
(average age)
Farmers’
and
Fishers’
P23,000Quality
annual
of Life
income
Sagip Saka Framework
Access to
Credit/
Investment
Organizing
Infra
structure
Farmers’
and Fishers’
Quality of
Life
R&D
Access to
Market
Partial Results of Sagip Saka Market
Survey (Highlights)
Partial Results of Sagip Saka Market
Survey (Highlights)
There is Demand for Local Supply
• A cocoa cooperative needs at least 100,000
MT of cacao beans per year
– Currently, they can only source 2,000 MT per year
• A multinational processing company have ongoing arrangements with local traders for
CORN (350,000 MT/year) and CASSAVA
(200,000 MT/year)
5 Pillars of Sagip Saka
DA and Other
Government
Agencies
Business
Sector
CSOs and MFIs
Farmers and
Fisherfolk
Organizations
LGUs
Sagip Saka Pillars and their Roles:
DA and Other Government Agencies
(DAR, DENR, DTI, CDA, LBP, DBP, DOST, SUCs, etc.)
• provide R&D, technical support, capacity
building, and extension services
• provide the opportunity for funding / access
to credit
• provide crop insurance and guarantees
• provide post-harvest facilities, support for
infrastructure
Sagip Saka Pillars and their Roles:
Business Sector
• coordinate regarding market requirements
• provide direct market opportunities for
organized farmers and fisherfolk groups
• provide technology and training and
upgrading of management skills for farmers
and fisherfolk
• linkage to other institutional buyers
Sagip Saka Pillars and their Roles:
Local Government Units (LGUs)
• organize farmers and fisherfolk into cooperatives
• assist the farmers’ and fishers’ cooperatives to meet the
accreditation requirements of the market (business
sector/company)
• create linkage with other government institutions to
provide technical assistance and other requirements
• provide regular pest and disease monitoring by the
assigned Agricultural Technologist
• assist the farmers and fisherfolk in the preparation of
Project Proposals, Work Plans, Agro-enterprise Plans, and
other documents
Sagip Saka Pillars and their Roles:
CSOs and MFIs
• provide capability and capacity building
activities/training to farmers and fisherfolk
• form cluster of farmers for agroenterprise
development
• Provide assistance in formulating and implementing
an agro-enterprise plan
• Assist in conducting market chain study
• Provide financial and bookkeeping management
training
• Provide leadership seminar and teambuilding
activities
Sagip Saka Pillars and their Roles:
Farmers and Fisherfolk Groups
• provide quality produce to the market, with assurance of
supply and based on market requirements
• undergo periodic training and capacity building to ensure
acquisition of latest techniques and skills in running the
farming community enterprise
• once established, upgrade their facilities and systems to
improve quality and consistency of supply
• consistently look for market opportunities to sell their
produce
• manage their assets and financial statements and acquire
basic marketing skills
Stakeholders
• Farmers & Fisherfolk
Organizations
• DA
• Gawad Kalinga
• CSOs
• MFIs
• Colleges and SUCs
• Church and Faithbased Organizations
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ULAP
LGU
CDA
DAR
DENR
DTI
DOST
AF2025
• Other Private and
Government Institutions
Credit /
Investment
Organizing (Social
Preparation)
• DA Credit
Groups
• Pinoy ME
• Micro Credit
Institutions
• DSWD
• CRS
• PBSP
• Pakisama
• Pinoy ME
• SUCs
• LGUs
Market
• Private
• Big players
• Area Based
• AF Business
Groups
Research and
Development
• DA
• SUCs
• LGUs
• DTI
Infrastructure
• DA
• DTI
• LGU
Key Result Areas (KRAs)
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Identification of 25 Pilot Areas
Converge Stakeholders
P100M  Impact
Convene reps of stakeholders in each pilot area
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Business plan
Identification of gaps
What to ask thru Sagip Saka
Criteria for Pilot Projects
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Low Cost (low risk)
High Impact (long term)
Time-Bound (short term)
Could be replicated
Organized Farmers
Market Driven products
Quantifiable Success Indicators
Sagip Saka Flowchart
1. Identify partner oranization
- are they capable of absorbing assistance from Sagip Saka?
- what type of intervention do they need (ARARO)
- how do they plan to use the assistance from sagip saka?
2. Submission of business plans from possible partners
- brief description of the organization (how many farmers/farm
families will benefit?)
- contact persons
- brief description of the project
- financial plan (amount needed, how will it be used, target earnings,
etc.
- timeline
- brief background on the market
3. Screening and validation on the ground by TK COCAFM
- checklist
Sagip Saka Flowchart
4. Recommendation to the principal
- go or no go
- possible partners per pilot area and role of each partner
5. MOU signing and launch on the ground
6. Project execution (partner organizations)
7. Monitoring (TK, COCAFM)
8. Submission of reports (partner organization)
9. Photo/video documentation and draft of success
stories (TK, COCAFM)
10. Compilation and evaluation of whole Sagip Saka
program