The agribusiness project

• Main Author: Legaspi, Raelita E.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Agricultural industries; Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6691
• Institution: De La Salle University

While embarking on the first year of USAID funded Agribusiness Project, the project monitoring, evaluation and communication section teamed up with international and national consultants conducted a baseline study to benchmark impact, outcome and output indicators. Setting the baseline value for project indicators is part of results tracking measures that ASF has undertaken. The baseline study will not only underscores current performance of the project targeted value chains and value chain actors but also enable the project to systematically and objectively ensure the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and impact of project intervention areas i.e. income, employment, production quality and quantity, market linkages, value edition, post-harvest losses, use of improved production practices, and access to business development services; concurrently, it will serves the purpose of project quality assurance by indicating the project grey-areas of the course correction. A systematic approach - by involving the international and national consultants and regional monitoring and evaluation teams - has been followed for establishing baseline survey methodology i.e. survey tools, sample size, data collection, cleaning, analysis and interpretation. A total of 6393 value chain actors from a total of 22 prioritized value chains, including 2892 horticulture farmers, 1312 livestock farmers, 1209 market agents, 423 processors, and 557 service providers, were interviewed during the baseline study. Considering the diverse nature of sub-sectors and targeted regions, a deliberate effort was made to ensure genuine representation from all the 22 value chains and 10 targeted regions. These sampled respondents were taken based upon confidence interval of 5 and a confidence level 95% by using purposive sampling. The baseline questionnaire for horticulture farmers, livestock farmer, processors, market agents and service providers has been developed and uploaded on survey-monkey software. The software is used for real time data collection from field using tabs/devices. The collected data is analyzed in the software and in MS Excel using pivot table and cross tabulation option. The analysis of the baseline results and findings is structure in a way that the baseline has three main section including: a) baseline introduction, objectives and methodology, b) overview of horticulture and livestock sector using secondary data, c) data analysis of horticulture value chains on project indicators, and d) data analysis of livestock value chains on indicators.