Post-harvest and Value Chain Activities in Pailin

Andrew Higgins, Greg Secomb and Ly Bunthoeun

Cambodian Crop Production & Marketing ACIAR Project

Project meeting 10-11th February 2009, Battambang

Objectives

Understanding the value chain• Mapping the chain using a bottom up approach• Identify relationship structures, logistic flows, economic flows• Identify where the opportunities are

Tools for learning and analysis • Database model • Periscope for the chain - Farmers, Middlemen (and others) learning about the chain

around them

Model scenarios for value chain opportunities• Transport

• better utilisation (or sharing) of existing vehicles • targeting priority areas for road improvements • identifying additional “fuel efficient” vehicles that should be adopted • improving the routing of transport

• Small farm (or multi-farm) storage & drying facilities • increased market prices versus costs of facilities• how many facilities, and where should they be

Illustration of a Maize Value Chain in Pailin

Illustration of a Maize Value Chain in Pailin

Survey Information

Case study cluster has been identified - CARE Cluster 2 • Stung Kach Commune, Sala Krau District, Pailin Municipality

Data gathering – Farmer/middlemen• Surveys

• A sample of 8-10 farmers from the 12 villages

• Further farmers surveyed if needed

• Interview all the middlemen operating in cluster

• Farmer questionnaire developed and entered in a PDA

• Progress by CARE team• About 88 households to date

• Mainly surveyed farmers at this stage and about 6 middlemen

• Number of middlemen is far more than originally thought

• Need comprehensive survey of middlemen to try to untangle this web

• We have to learn more about how these middlemen operate

Other Information Gathering

Transport, storage, dehulling • Plan to use GPS (on PDA) to collect locations of all the strategic sites in the

value chain

• Then overlay these points on to existing software applications (ie. ArcMap or Google Maps) to generate a good visual image of the system

• CARE have already produced a map of the region for CARE target villages

• Have GPS’s some farmer locations, but not all

Silo• List of inbound deliveries to the Silo during the EWS and LWS

• List of outgoing deliveries

Database Tool

MS Access version• Ease of entry for CARE officers

• Each sheet represents a segment in the value chain

• Useful consolidated storage

• Illustrate chain linkages and networks structures

Demonstration and education • Walk farmers and middlemen across their value chain

Give 2 Minute MS Access Demonstration

Thank You

Contacts

Greg Secomb

Agricultural Advisor

CARE - Cambodia

Pailin Office

Phone - 012 619 043

Email greg.secomb@care-cambodia.org

Andrew Higgins

Group Leader – Decision Technologies for Sustainability

CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Phone +61 7 3214 2340)

Email Andrew.Higgins@csiro.au

Proposed Activities for 2008/20092008 2009

Activity May-June

July-Sep

Oct-Dec

Jan- Mar

Apr – June

July-Sept

Oct-Dec

Farmer cluster selection and form working group

Information gathering

Map the supply chain

Develop database

Validate the supply chain map

Develop scenarios for value chain opportunities

Extension to other CARE clusters

Develop business case or feasibility studies for funding and building the transport, storage & drying facilities.

Next Steps

Expand the questions in the farmer and middleman survey.

Finish off the farmer and middleman surveys.

Check with the Pailin Silo about obtaining the Silo information

Check with the Ministry of Commerce about obtaining the information about truck deliveries in to Thailand

If the truck delivery information cannot be obtain through the MoC or Customs, explore the feasibility of surveying drivers crossing the Thailand/Cambodia boarder.

Refine initial MS Access database model. Add a feature to ensure ease of data entry for CARE project staff. Also add a feature, to provide analysis of the supply chain (e.g. show the network relationships) and provide summary information.

Next Steps /2

Obtain more information on the justification of the middleman spending $15,000 on the weighbridge outside Pailin. Check for available economic analysis.

Develop statistical and network analysis methods to model and analyse the supply network in the CARE cluster 2.

Develop specific scenarios to analyse.

Reflections, learnings, updates for 2009 Supply chain a much more complex networks, than first anticipated or indicated by top down analysis

• Data gathering a very complex and time consuming task• Significant benefits though

• Just mapping and modelling the chain a significant innovation• Increase effort on this activity

Add after more discussions with Greg