Presentation of Mr. Rogel Marsan of the Cosmic Farm during the Philippine Extension and Advisory Services Network (PhilEASNet) CAR Chapter and AFEN-CAR

1. Cosmic Farm
as
Farmer Extensionist
(Best Practices)
Rogel A. Marsan

2. WELCOME!!!

3. Cosmic Farm
through the
YEARS

4. As per records...(100, 200, 350, 500, 1k sqm)
The sales are;
2002 Php 52, 386.00
2003 13, 906.00
2004 no figure
2005 65, 117.70
2006 153, 568.00

5. As per records…(3,500 sqm.)
The sales are;
2007 175,907.80
2008 P 100,579.00
2009 225,907.00
2010 300,500.00

6. As per records…(3,500 sqm.)
The sales are;
2011 407,485.00
2012 773,535.25
2013 Php 1,130,847.15
2014 Php 1,467,934.30

7. Why there's still no money just in
paper

8. • We come up of new strategy on Management
on Production of Fresh Organic Vegetables
and Herbs :
– Reduce 3,500 sq. m. to 1,000 sqm GH
– Reduce compost from 52,500 klgs – 4,000 klgs
– Reduce irrigation hours from 6 hours – 2 hours
– Annual crop become perennial crop
– Plant crop that are not in the market
– Permanent raise bed
– Multi-cropping in one bed

9. • Enhance our structure
– Farm tours - 4,000 sq.m.
– Trainings/Seminars – 100 sq.m.
– Processed Products – 20 sq.m.
– Sprouting (Alfalfa) - 6 sq.m.
– Pig Pen - 98 sq.m.
– Chicken Coop – 36 sq.m.
– Small Ruminant (Sheep/Goat) – 20 sq.m.

10. Use the Formula
(1x2x3=6+1=7)
1 - Farm
2 – Farm Tourism
- Visitors
3 – Learning Site
- Training
- DIY (do it yourself)
*Harvesting
Processing (tea bagging, coffee roasting)
Making compost
Concoction
4 - Homestay
5 - Kitchenette (restaurant)
6 - Souvenir/Product/Seeds
7 – Vehicle Service (under process)

11. Income per Enterprise 2015
- Every enterprise of the farm is profitable
- Production of Fresh Organic Vegetables and Herbs – P 383,191.95
- Farm tours - P 146,670.00
- Homestay – P 20,300.00
- Trainings/Seminars - P 104,700.00
- Processed Products - P 458,915.00
- Sprouting (Alfalfa) - P 449,429.25
Award Prize – 250,000.00 (National – 200,000.00, Region – 50,000.00)

12. Income per Enterprise 2016
- Every enterprise of the farm is profitable
- Production of Fresh Organic Vegetables and Herbs – P 410,818.50
- Farm tours - P 85,500.00
- Homestay – P21,000.00
- Trainings/Seminars - P 52,300.00
- Processed Products - P 589,140.00
- Sprouting (Alfalfa) - P 447,185.00
Award Prize – 380,000.00 (National 300,000.00, Region 50,000.00/30,000.00)

13. Income per Enterprise 2017
- Every enterprise of the farm is profitable
- Production of Fresh Organic Vegetables and Herbs – P 580, 331.50
- Farm tours - P 105, 758.50
- Homestay – P 64,900.00
- Trainings/Seminars - P535, 000.00
- Processed Products - P 654, 857.50
- Sprouting (Alfalfa) - P 1, 000, 170.00
Award Prize – 350,000.00 (National 300,000.00 Region 50,000.00)

14. Income per Enterprise 2018
- Every enterprise of the farm is profitable
- Production of Fresh Organic Vegetables and Herbs – P 517,919.00
- Farm tours - P 169, 195.00
- Homestay – P 63,300.00
- Trainings/Seminars - P1,169, 500.00
- Processed Products - P 386, 105.00
- Sprouting (Alfalfa) - P 665,440.00
- Livestock – P 100,000.00
Award Prize – 50,000.00 (Region 50,000.00)

15. Consolidation 2018
- Amount P 1,875,822.50 (5%, 93,791.10)
- LaTOP
- BIGS
- Farmers Haven
- Individual farmers (from Labilab, Atok and Mt. Province)

16. Cosmic Farm Income Derived
when become an learning site
Visitor'sFee Sales TrainingFee Homestay ConsultationFee Catering total
2013 4,740.00 4,740.00 53,200.00 - 71,500.00 - 134,180.00
2014 25,150.00 25,800.00 26,100.00 - 50,000.00 43,745.00 170,795.00
2015 38,440.00 111,230.00 97,680.00 24,300.00 126,000.00 - 397,650.00
2016 14,230.00 70,818.00 52,300.00 21,000.00 13,700.00 - 172,048.00
2017 20,750.00 86,408.00 523,350.00 64,900.00 - 10,000.00 705,408.00
2018 70,900.00 97,945.00 1,025,500.00 48,300.00 6,000.00 - 1,248,645.00
174,210.00 396,941.00 1,778,130.00 158,500.00 267,200.00 53,745.00 2,828,726.00

17. Now

18. History/Milestones
• Started 1989
• 2004, verified by OPTA as certified organic (Safe Food Label:
Ligtas Bughaw classification)
• 2004, registered the farm name, Cosmic Farm to DTI.
Renewed until 2020.
• 2005, awarded as Organic Farm of the year by the Ang
Kasama, Inc.
• 2007, registered to BIR and started paying taxes.
• 2008, second party certification as Organic by Ecoland.
• 2010, ranked as Star 6 (highest rank) in the LaTOP MPC star
ranking system up to the present.
• 2010, included in the LaTOP MPC group certification by
OCCP.
• 2012, renewed certification to NICERT

19. History/Milestones
• 2013, accredited by ATI-CAR as a Learning Site
(LS) until August 2016.
• 2014, renewed again certification to NICERT and
also included in LaTOP MPC group certification.
• 2016, applied Business Permit and Sanitary
Permit to the Municipality of La Trinidad.
• 2016, renewed again certification to NICERT.
• June 2016, accredited as an Agri-Tourism
Farm/Site by DOT. Renewed until 2019.
• September 2016, accredited by ATI-CAR as a
School for Practical Agriculture (SPA) on Highland
Vegetables up to the present.

20. History/Milestones
• April 2017, registered as a TVET provider for Organic
Agriculture Production NCII by TESDA .
• 2017, renewed again certification to NICERT.
• 2017, registered to Pag-ibig.
• April 2018, registered to Philhealth.
• May 2018, registered to SSS.
• Oct 2018, PhilGAP Certified.
• January 2019, renewed certification to NICERT (on
going)
– (With these registrations to various organizations,
employees are secured with the services of the such
government and private organizations).

21. Cosmic Farm Achievements:
• 2005 - Ang KaSaMa Inc. - MAHARLIKA AWARD - (Organic Farm of the Year)
• 2008 - Nacionalista Party - Pondo sa Sipag, Puhunan sa Tiyaga Awards 2008
(Finalist)
• 2012 – Rotary Club of Cubao East, JCI – The Outstanding Philippine Organic
Agriculturists (TOPOA Awards)
• 2015 - Department of Agriculture - CY 2015 Regional / National Winner of the
Organic Agriculture Achiever’s Award (Small Farmer Individual Category)
• 2016 - Department of Agriculture - CY 2016 Regional/National Winner of the
Organic Agriculture Achiever’s Award (Organic Farming Family Category)
• 2016 - Department of Agriculture – Gawad Saka (Outstanding Organic Agriculture
Farmer)
Regional - Winner
National – Finalist
• 2017 - Department of Agriculture - CY 2017 Regional/National Winner of the
Organic Agriculture Achiever’s Award (Organic Farming Family Category)
• 2018 – Department of Agriculture – CY 2018 Regional Winner of the Gawad Saka
(Outstanding Organic Agriculture Farmer)

22. Mission – Vision – Values Statement
Mission
“Our enduring mission proclaims our farm’s purpose which is to provide our clients an
excellent organic product that would help to promote healthy living for all.”
Vision
“A competitive farm that is engaged in bringing a quality and excellent organic
products that anticipate and satisfy people’s health and well being.”
Values
Organic - We are after the health of our clients.
Quality -We make sure that the products we provide are of quality and the best
product in town.
Fresh– We offer the best quality of organic products.
Local– We help to promote our own products that would help gain tourism and be
well known

23. Goals
• To provide our clients with enough organic product by
following the annual farm plan that will enable the farm to
produce the needed quantity that would satisfy the clients’
demands for organic products.
• To continue and improve organic practices (fermentations,
concoctions, other input making) that is used to produce
healthy organic products.
• To be a source of information of the nutrients found in
different organic products and how to prepare these
organic products in order to get the most nutrients from it.
• To plant different varieties of high value crops that are not
common in the market.

24. Slogan
“Experience the Organic Magic”
Logo

26. Domestic Visitors
as of December 31, 2018
• total visitors – 5,096
• total male - 2,422
• total female – 2,674

27. Foreign Visitors
as of December 31, 2018
Total visitors - 124
• total male - 72
• total female - 52
Came from:
Poland Germany Korea India Qatar Saudi Arabia
USA Nepal Austria Singapore China Venezuela
Australia Italy Malaysia Norway Japan
Taiwan France Vietnam Canada

28. Organic Training Conducted
as of December 31, 2018
Number of trainings conducted – 38
Tesda scholar 6 batch (155 participant)
ATI scholar 3 batches
Number of participants - 709

29. Community Service (Sitio/Barangay)
Sitio
• * Road has been cemented
• * Electricity
• * Water
• * Transportation (tricycle)
Barangay
• Recognized as one of tourist destination
• Generate income (transport group, tourism operators and
others)
• Donate/sponsor (student to compete regional, national)
• Participated in school activity during nutrition month – a
demo on how to cook and eat vegetables, preparation of
salad and sauce.

30. Community Service (outside)
• Donated an amount for Typhoon Ompong and Rosita - DOT
CAR
• Teach the Urban Organic Farming and donated planting
materials (seedlings, seeds, compost, soil media, concoction -
OHN, BAM and FPJ) and molasses in Garrizon evacuation
center, Ucab,Itogon, Benguet, with 40 families in order for
them to sustain their day to day food supply
• Participate and contributed an amount , an outreach mission
to Mankayan – TVET Benguet

31. SERVICES

32. TRAINING

33. OA Training NCII
Organic Agriculture NCII
On Organic Crop Production
-- Conducted organic agriculture training at
BJMP – Baguio City Jail – Male Dorm
(TESDA-Benguet)
-- Conducted 1st-6th batch w/ 155 pax

34. 1st – 5th batch of OAP NCII

35. TRAINING (outside)

36. TRAINING (outside)

37. *Farm Tours*

39. *Consultation*

40. On the Job Training

41. On the Job Training

42. PRODUCTS

43. Heirloom Broccoli Lettuce

44. Tomatoes

45. Cherry Tomatoes (Variety)

46. Round Eggplant Japanese Cucumber

47. Physalis Ampalaya

48. Micro-Green Sprouting

49. Processed Products

50. As a Learning Site
(January 2013-August 2016)
Cosmic Farm served as
- a visit area for organic agriculture participants
- an onsite training venue for organic
agriculture participants
- visit area for clients from other regions.

51. As a School for Practical Agriculture –
Organic Highland Vegetables
(September 2016-present)
- orients visiting groups arranged by ATI
- become the practicum area to complement
classroom learning
- training venue for hands on training
- OJT training site for ATI’s training
participants/visitors and youth scholars
- to serve as resource person/trainer for
participants
- make available the farm as demo area for hands
on training and to conduct live-in training for the
ATI.

52. Cosmic Farm has already a hall with an
80pax capacity, rooms for homestay with a
30pax capacity, comfort rooms, processing area,
chicken coop, pig pens and an office.
These facilities will help as continue to
serve ATI-CAR as a farm extensionist.

53. Pictures
of
Areas
and
Facilities
of
Cosmic Farm

54. Entrance

55. Greenhouse 1

56. Greenhouse 2

57. Greenhouse 3

58. Greenhouse 4

59. Greenhouse 5

60. Greenhouse 5 (Strawberry in Pots)

61. Greenhouse 6

62. Maharlika Erba Place

63. View Deck and mini Park

66. Pig Pen

67. Pig Pen

68. Pig Pen

69. Chicken Coop

70. Chicken Coop

71. Small Ruminant (Goat n Sheep)

72. Large Ruminant (Cow)

73. Compost Mixing Area

74. Vermi-Culture Area

75. Tools/Equipment Area

76. Fermentation/Concoction Area

77. Nursery

78. Micro-Green (sprouting)

79. Post Harvest Facilities

80. Post Harvest Facilities

81. Post Harvest Facilities

82. Processing Area

83. Processing Area

84. Processing Area

85. Fertigation/Irrigation Equipment

86. 2 rooms for 4 pax n 1 room for 2 pax

87. CR

88. Female CR n shower Male CR n Shower

89. Avong 1 – 2 pax

90. 1 room for 10 pax n 2 rooms for 6 pax
(New)

91. Male 2 CR n 2 shower (New)

92. Female 2 CR n 2 shower (New)

93. Lecture Room 30 pax

94. Lecture Room 80-100 pax (New)

95. Lecture Room 80-100 pax (New)

96. ICS materials Office

97. Office

98. Recognition/award plague

100. • Continuous development of farm facilities that
will help in fulfilling our roles as a School for
Practical Agriculture (SPA)
(e.g. hall before – 10-30pax ; now 80-100pax)
• Continuous learning
(e.g. attending seminars/trainings to further
improve knowledge and skills/technology
practiced)

101. • Becoming farmer-entrepreneur
• Improvement of social/communication skills
(e.g. being a resource person/lecturer, one must
know how to connect with his/her audience,
must be knowledgeable of different kind of
dialects,…)

102. We hope that a visit to
Cosmic Farm
will give you a new feeling and
good ideas about organic farming.
It’s our special place and we want
it to be yours, too.