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Imperative 20: State aid is critical to finance mega co-op feasibility studies and technical transfers

     Once mega co-op proponents have obtained pledges at say P100 million (with 50% ready cash) from the mass of involved employees, State agencies, corporate and institutional investors local and foreign, all involved should conduct elections via website to appoint management teams composed of members who are management level retirees. During organization and feasibility study activities, retiree management teams should be budgeted with mere allowances at corporate supervisor rates because all of them already enjoy large pensions and most are expected to be earning out of their 'retiree businesses'.  Their full compensation should be a percentage of profits to assure their exertion of utmost skills for all investors' benefit.  
    Said retiree management teams should embark upon the following activities: a) conduct website elections for a ministerial Board, register the co-op and deposit the investors' initial 50% cash in bank.  By-laws should include a provision on Contract Approval by Referendum, whereby 30+% of top investors vote (via website)  on all major policies, contracts, and loans as corruption preventive;  b) hire expert teams and consultants to prepare module type project briefs for each product line proposed and voted upon by all investors. Expert teams may come from the Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Forest Management Bureau, Bureau of  Animal Industry, State lands, water and power agencies, State colleges of Agriculture and agribusiness, other related State agencies, private organic farms, retired experts of private food processing companies, etc.; c) use the project briefs to pre-market products and production contracts by searching for local and foreign joint venture partners.  Sources may include  the Dept. of Trade, foreign embassies, National Economic and Development Authority, Philippine embassies' commercial attaches abroad, foreign chambers of commerce, owners of Pacific Rim restaurants and food canning or processing companies, East Asian corporate groups' representatives in the Philippines, co-op investors' foreign contacts, and other sources.  The management teams should match foreign companies' agribusiness needs, the co-op's ability to meet such needs, and additional related product lines that the foreign companies may reckon as profit sources; d) submit copies of consolidated project briefs to a local government (province, city, municipality) that is eligible for the World Bank's Municipal Development Fund loans.  More copies should be provided to the Dept. of Finance, National Economic & Development Authority, Central Bank, Climate Change Commission, DENR, Dept. of Defense, related Presidential offices, State banks and corporations (pension, health, pre-need, housing), House and Senate economic committees (if no Internet Congress exists), the mega co-ops' corporate and institutional investors, religious denominations, provincial, municipal, tribal and Barangay (village) officials at the agro-forest's project site, print and broadcast media, interested international NGOs, Green Funds, the largest Communist front groups, top Muslim political and religious leaderships, and other appropriate organizations.  The thousand or so employees who are co-op members may peruse copies thru the co-op website.  The aim is to assure political, economic, military, international, social, civic, media, public, religious and even rebel support for the projects.  Wide local public, media and international support will ensure no future organizational and operational kinks such as some corrupt State officials' offers of licensing, permits, land use, military protection and franchising approvals with 'pay or get disapproved' conditions (if no I-Congress still exists).  The project briefs should also inspire recipients to plan their very own mega co-op corporate groups and begin to act on their plan in conjunction with local and foreign joint venture companies; e) use the project briefs in applying for a P20+ million feasibility study and technical transfer grant from the local government eligible for World Bank MDF loans. Such grant will be recovered thru the local government donor's future tax take (which will be endless) paid out by mega co-ops and their dependent industries.  Endorsements of support from the previously mentioned organizations should ease grant issuance.  The grant should include technical transfer budgets for the expert teams to educate investor-employee groups (section and division levels) towards set-up and operation of small agribusiness companies engaged in contract-growing or processing, or supply of services to the mega co-op to raise its export production capacities; f) use the grant to prepare full module-type multi-product feasibility study which includes local and foreign pre-operations marketing agreements.  Expert teams should be hired to prepare the full feasibility study;  g) post study in co-op's website to garner even deeper support from project brief copies' recipients as well as develop more investment interest from other local and foreign employee groups and CSR companies, 1st World Green Funds, NGOs, foreign State Aid agencies, other potential joint venture partners, and other sources of investments and funding, as well as general business and political support; h) use the co-op website and blogs to encourage local and 1st World employee groups and CSR companies to set up more mega co-ops for the agribusiness and rural industrialization sectors with reference to the infrastructure, tourism, industrial, and world marketing projects described in this blog.  
    The pre-operations time frame?  Depends upon initial action conducted by the author's promotions enterprise funded by fees from blog and e-mail Question & Answer activities, and resultant organization of Philippine mega co-ops together with local and foreign joint venture firms as they form corporate groups. 
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