– Mr. Herminio B. Martin, President & CEO, Unifrutti Philippines, Inc.The Foundation for Agrarian Reform Cooperatives in Mindanao (FARMCOOP) is a grassroots not-for-profit organization. We organize and provide services to small family farmers’ cooperatives. Our vision is to build resilient communities through sustainable agri-based enterprise and cooperative effort.
Since 1995, we have served over 6,000 farmers in more than 20 cooperatives and associations of agrarian reform beneficiaries, small-scale farmers, and indigenous peoples. We believe that farmers’ cooperatives have a special role in society as effective vehicles in empowering their communities towards holistic development. Through FARMCOOP’s core services, farmers’ cooperatives can realize their collective goals and aspirations through cooperativism. Learn more.
“We admire and commend FARMCOOP’s steadfastness in pursuing the vision of empowering small holder famers through organized farm agricultural cooperatives.”
“FARMCOOP helped me develop my managerial skills and guided our cooperative to achieve our goals. Farmcoop assisted us in improving our banana production, thereby uplifting our financial status so we can fund our children’s education. Farmcoop listens to our ideas and provides us the opportunity to share our successes to other organizations. We are happy to help the society.” – Demetrio L. Patiño, Jr. Support 1,000 Coconut Local and Indigenous Farmers
Support FARMCOOP’s Organic Coconut Processing Project
Mindanao’s indigenous and local coconut farmers are among the most impoverished farmers, earning only $5 a day. Today, one package of coconut water is $5 retail price in the US on average, and coconuts are processed into food, industrial and pharmaceutical products. However, the farmers remain poor because their coconuts are bought at meager prices. In collaboration with the organic coconut farming cooperatives, FARMCOOP’s production and trading arm has developed the organic coconut processing project to improve the livelihood of coconut farmers. Read more …