NGO Bina Desa (primary) Organizing Cooperatives (village level) Small scale farmers IOA (network) Revolving Fund/ Soft Loan (organic farming) Farmer Organization

FO Primary Cooperative (eg SIDCI) Marketing, Credit, etc. Member farmers National Federation Coop Fed (NATCCO) Member cooperatives (Farmer Union) Eg VNFU National FUProvince FUDistrict FUCommune Member farmers Association + Corporation National Community Based Corporation (focused on org rice, muscovado sugar) Corporation Small scale farmers Individuals

Forms of Services Technical Services / Business Development (Sep 7) Case Studies (Training, Exposure, Feasibility Study, etc) (Reflection Session)Financial (Sep 8 AM)Cases Marketing (Sep 8 PM) Cases Social Services (not covered by case studies)

National Fos Delivery of Services to Members What possible/best form of organization? What possible/best kinds of services?

Workshop Instructions FIRST GROUP(Second Floor) Vietnam Mongolia Cambodia Phils SECOND GROUP (First Floor) Japan Indonesia Myanmar Souh Korea Philippines

New ideas learned that can be usefulHow to deliver services and steps needed API Indonesia -from SIDCI: loan can be non-monetary (eg feeds, seeds) -this is a weakness in Indonesia -make a policy that loans to be provided will be non- monetary -must be consistent with members on this -from SIDCI: importance of economy of scale in business -to know how many hectares is needed, for example -base support on the business plan and feasibility study -make business plan and feasibility study

New ideas learned that can be usefulHow to deliver services and steps needed AFFM Myanmar Need to deliver technical services (Development of spring resort for ecotourism) Can also develop ecotourism Direct producer and consumer relationsNeed to build trust Seed banking/seed exchange Important to address climate change issues Collect indigenous seed varieties Share or trade Potential of export market for org rice Have market but have few organic rice 300 acres jasmine rice Help farmers export their products like organic jasmine rice Help farmers meet the requirements of trade Focus on small scale organic family farms Farmers have lots of locally available materials (farmers focus on fertilizers) Need to learn and help member farmers learn Sieze new opportunities from recently opened situation in Myanmar Farmers can focus on their organizations

New ideas learned that can be usefulHow to deliver services and steps needed AINOUKAI Japan Circumstances of producers and consumers are very different in other countries Japan has a serious problem of decreasing number of young farmers Mission is how to keep sustainable agriculture in Japan Food self sufficiency is lowest in Asia (less than 30%, including livestock feeds) Interested in mixing livestock feeds in Soro Soro using brown rice, corn, copra (local materials) In Japan, all materials come from other countries As organic farmer, it is very important to use local materials (non-GMO)

New ideas learned that can be usefulHow to deliver services and steps needed PAKISAMA Philippines Importance of comprehensive services of institutions to farmers (full value chain) Trend of agriculture cooperatives as vehicles for providing services at primary and federation levelsInterested in the relationship and differences between KAFF and NACF in terms of services (complementation) Philippines can have a national cooperative federation like NACF Importance of economy of scale to have power Not a necessity for efficiency in market But connot do other things without scale (eg labelling) How to become big and manage bigness (scale) Need for professional managers

New ideas learned that can be usefulHow to deliver services and steps needed KAFF South Korea Most other countries focusing on how to benefit individual members KAFF focuses on provinces in delivering services (difficult to approach smaller branches) Many things need to be improved to deliver better services KAFF can improve its agriculture center to have more entertainment factors (first purpose is commemoration and convention center) Can earn more money (good investment)

New ideas learned that can be usefulHow to deliver services and steps needed AsiaDHRRA/CSA (Agricord) It does not matter what form of organization As long as you deliver the service But there is bias for cooperatives due to its benefits like tax exemption Important to cooperate together when a service is not provided But if somebody else is providing the service, it may not be necessary to have a cooperative (not ideological)