OE-NADA [Organization Enterprise-Needs Assessment and Design Assessment] Report : BDCD-DARPO [Beneficiaries Development Coordination Division-Department of Agrarian Reform Provincial Office]/Hacienda Anita Farmworkers' Association [Dian-ay, Escalante City, Negros Occidental, Philippines]

In the course of gathering the data and actual integration with the ARBs [Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries] using various methods and tools it was found out that Hacienda Anita Farmworkers' Association is a Collective Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organization with a total area of 33 hectares for its 36 ARB members wherein 28 are males and 8 females. The ARBO is registered under DOLE [Department of Labor and Employment, Philippines] with complete structure guided with a vision and mission. 1. Organizational Capacity. The ARBO is highly unified as manifested in their collective management system. With active community linkage, they had accessed new knowledge in production and other areas of concerns for their organization. Though they have identified weakness and possible organizational threats, their various strengths and outside opportunities are readily available for use. 2. Access to Credit and Market. The ARBO has been granted production loan by DAR [Department of Agrarian Reform] - DA [Department of Agriculture] - LBP [Land Bank of the Philippines] APCP [Agrarian Production Credit Program] fund if properly and accordingly utilized will sustain production. Effective and efficient performance of the officers' responsibility which strengthen their organizational structure can be enhanced in availing of the technical and logistic services of possible linkages like SRA [Sugar Regulatory Administration], LGU [Local Government Unit], DOLE, CDA [Cooperative Development Authority] and NGOs [nongovernment organizations]. Aside from just availing services, the mentioned community networks can become their partners such that they will be updated of programs that could support their future organizational plans and affairs. The ARBO has been granted production loan by DAR-DA-LBP APCP and its main client is their collective sugarcane farm. The collectively-managed sugarcane farm moreover, with the potential target clients outside the organization are sure market of the CSF [Common Service Facilities] enterprise. On one hand, the production of cane and eventually sugar products has an established market. 3. Enterprise Capacity. The ARBO is found to have exposure and observation in plantation-scale sugarcane production and management. For the CSF, the level of information is noted only on their having expertise in tractor operation and mechanization and they are basically new to the enterprise. Nevertheless, the ARBO members and officers are sincere to adopt the enterprise as supported by their 100% interest and commitment to patronize the service. Having approved production loan from the LBP on one hand, they will be trained to manage cash and plan for profitability. The collectively-managed sugarcane farm is a sure client of the CSF enterprise and with available finances for farm inputs, profit could be expected. With this, the ARBO can avoid financial risk and ensured to pay obligations. Added to that, the implementation of production loan is based on PSPs and Management contract. The take-off agri-enterprise of the ARBO is the collective sugarcane farm and sugar production is a low-risk industry wherein marketing system is already in place. 4. Crops and Production Suitability. The soil is classified under Luisiana series. The color is reddish. It is sticky and slippery when wet and stiff/very hard with changing texture when too dry such that ploughing soon after heavy rains will result to adverse soil structural condition. The major soil constraint to crop production being Luisiana clay is low in organic matter content and poor internal drainage. Availability of Phosphorus is a problem due to low pH. Such that program for soil amelioration and improvement should be implemented. Generally, the project area is well suited to sugarcane farming with recorded yield result of 85 tons/ha and less prone to soil erosion except for some areas with slope higher than 8%. It is marginally suitable to cassava, sweet potato, cashew and lowland rice and is suitable to legumes like soybean/peanuts and other fruit trees, coconut and grains like corn and sorghum. 5. Suitability of Intervention. The production venture of the ARBO in a collective system is a perfect start-up endeavour to prove the unity and cooperation of all inside the organization. Availing of the production loan in a timely move that respond to their need for financial sustenance. The option to sugarcane production is a wise decision taking into account their previous experience as sugarcane farmworkers; suitability of the crop to the area condition and the established market for the product. Given the ready and potential market, existence of the ARCCESS [Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services] program, the production requirement of the crop, the capacity of the ARBO to manage, CSF agri-enterprise is seen best suited for the ARBO to engage in.