1. Harnessing the Potential for
Farm Diversification
Intercropping Cacao and Banana
- Mr. Rene Dalayon,
CEO, FEDCO -

2. Federation of Cooperatives in Mindanao
or FEDCO
 Who is FEDCO?
FEDCO or Federation of Cooperatives in
Mindanao have 13 Member Cooperatives
located in Region XI, with around 3,000 Agrarian
Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) and small banana
growers owning 3,000 hectares of land planted
only to export-quality fresh Cavendish Bananas
that are both “highland” and “lowland” varieties.

3. CURRENT BANANA SITUATION
(CAVENDISH)
 China Market: 90% of the total production of the small
farmers is marketed to China.
 CHINA MARKET QUASI-BAN TO PHILIPPINE
BANANAS:
1,053,000 boxes of 13.5kg. or 14,215 metric tons
of bananas, being chopped weekly as a result.

4. How will farmers survive?
FARM DIVERSIFICATION

5. CACAO BANANA AGRI-ENTERPRISE
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
 The CBAED or Cacao Banana Agri-enterprise Development
Project is a partnership with:
 CBAED Project is composed of:
 Training and extension,
 Post harvest facility,
 CBEC or Cacao banana Extension Center,
 Organic input facility,
 Nursery and cacao seedling production and distribution.
 Four CBEC will be put up by FEDCO. Each CBEC will have
a cacao nursery, organic input facility and demo farm
showing bananas growing together with cacao (Inter-
cropping Cacao and Banana).

6. Why diversify?

 Maximization of the land area
 Increased productivity
 In response to the current decrease in
demand of bananas in the market
“…putting our eggs in one basket
can be too risky especially for
smallholder farmers who cannot
afford to lose huge amount of money.”

7. Cacao-Banana Extension Center
(CBEC)
 Intercropping Cacao and Banana

8. CACAO NURSERY

10. ORGANIC FACILITY

11. TRAINING AND EXTENSION
 2000 farmers will be trained under the project

12. We measure our success by
how much we’ve help
improve the lives of our
stakeholders.

13. Thank you!