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Imperative 28: 9th vision: joint venture mega co-op resorts

    Ten  or so Philippine mega co-ops may pool capital and set up one resorts-operating company in joint venture with foreign CSR companies and 1st World companies engaged in tourism, hotels and inns.  The joint venture company may thence apply for low-interest loans from Climate Change and World Aid Funds to cover 75% of project cost.  Loan repayments and interest should augment said green funds' budgets. Capital sharing for the resort joint ventures may be 60-40% (locals more) as required by Philippine law.  The resorts should be constructed near sites where BOT companies have set up mini dam hydropower chains, biogas power facilities and geothermal power plants that together produce gigagawatt-level electricity and are able to install power lines to resort facilities.        Every mega co-op with its 3,000-hectare (or larger) agro-forest  may accommodate five or so joint venture forest resorts with waterfalls, swimming po...

Imperative 27: 8th vision: mega co-ops' contract production of organic meats

    Upscale markets in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Korea and other countries prefer organically-grown and processed pork and chicken meats.  Reason: current commercially-grown chicken and pigs worldwide are fed with concentrates that are loaded with such chemicals as growth enhancers, disease preventives, synthetic vitamins, meat 'beautifiers', feeds preservatives, vaccines, anti-caking, anti-rancidity and anti-mold agents, etc.  Portions of such chemicals are now known to stay within the meats even after slaughter and cooking.  In due time they become causes of cancers, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, kidney and liver disease, etc.     Health-conscious consumers who are aware of such dangers prefer to consume organically grown and processed meats, despite such products' premium prices.  Organic pork and chicken meat come from livestock raised on the range, the animals free to move about within fenced feedlots that have roofed she...

Imperative 26: 7th vision: mega co-ops' contract raising of livestock

    Ranchers and livestock raisers from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India, Middle East and other countries may multiply their stocks of cattle, sheep, goats, buffaloes, antelopes, and deer, and even add horses and donkeys (for sale to resorts) thru feedlot-style contract breeding and grow-out with Philippine mega co-ops that operate agro-forests.  Restaurateurs from Coastal China, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and other countries may also engage in Philippine mega co-ops' organic style contract growing of pigs, range chicken, ducks, turkey, ostrich and quail.  Target: supply portions of the 2.5 billion Chinese, Indian and Pacific Rim markets with refrigerated meat cuts, jerkies (semi-dried, flavored meat cuts) and barbecues, smoked duck, shawarma cuts, boiled quail eggs (for soups), sausages, milk, cheese, yogurt and food factory ingredients.  Organic meats with special qualities and flavors (contractors' secrets) are highly desired even at ...

Imperative 25: 6th vision: 1st World CSR companies' toll roads

    Mega co-op agro-forest clusters earning millions of dollars out of export sales each month will surely afford paying toll fees to a road-making consortium set up by scores of 1st World CSR companies.  Built on build-operate-transfer basis, the initial toll roads should connect to existing rural roads to access millions of hectares of currently denuded tropical lands.  To access further millions of hectares of current Philippine regions that have zero road networks, the BOT consortia may coordinate with pre-coops to set up new region-wide toll road networks based on mega co-op Movement plans.   Mega co-ops and their BOT partners may thereby transform the entire Philippines' currently denuded uplands into greenhouse gas-absorbing forests and croplands that operate in perpetuity.       The said 1st World road-building consortia  (which includes civil works companies) may sell billion-dollar low-interest bonds to the Asian Develo...

Imperative 24: 5th vision: 1st World CSR companies' upland cable transport systems

    Fast track reforestation and maximum efficiency upland farming and livestock raising on the Philippines' 18 million hectares of mountains that rise from 1,000 to 2,300 meters in height requires tiers of upland elevators, heavy duty cable lines with motorized cabs, and zip cable lines in strategic areas of every 3,000-hectare mega co-op agro-forest.  The elevator and cable transports should speed up delivery of personnel, farm tools, tree saplings for reforestation, crop harvests, construction materials, etc.  Vertical frame freight elevator systems may require a unit every 50 meters of an average 1,500 meter high mountainside cliff or carved 'notch' all the way to mountaintop.  Where slopes are at low degrees, roofed ramps should connect one elevator to another, enabling personnel and tools to be lifted to specific mountain heights for perpetual agro-forest operations throughout entire mountain ranges at minimal effort.  Strategic areas of mountain ra...

Imperative 23: 4th vision: 1st World CSR companies' upland water supply systems

    Philippine upland summers are the worst times for mountain dwellers' kids who have to trek for hours over mountains to get mere jerry cans of drinking water at the nearest spring.  The tragedy is prevalent among isolated settlements in the Philippines' 18 million hectares of uplands where mega co-ops should build their agro-forests.  Where will the thousand-hectare agro-forests get their water?  Here's the modeling scheme:      A group of five mega co-ops managing 15,000 hectares of agro-forest sets up a company that will partner with several 1st World corporations (including one water equipment manufacturing company) in order to provide irrigation and potable water supply systems for the entire area, its processing factories, its employees' villages, and small farms and towns adjacent to the area.  Capital is 60% co-op and 40% foreign partners to comply with Philippine law.   Green Funds and 1st World Aid agencies provide 75...

Imperative 22 : 3rd Vision: Mega co-op agroforests' joint venture biogas-fueled power plants

    At full operations stage, each mega co-op's agro-forest farm should be expected to produce thousand-ton stacks of farm wastes (stalks, leaves, straws) out of some 3,000 hectares of agro-forests that perpetually grow trees, vines, grains, vegetables, grasses, root crops and other greenery.  Each co-op may also operate feedlots for thousands of sheep, cattle, pigs, deer, antelope, ostrich, range chicken, ducks and goats under forest trees largely on contract production terms with foreign ranchers and restaurateurs.  The animals will be expected to yield enormous quantities of fecal waste.  As environmentalists know, crop and livestock wastes when combined in sealed digester tanks can generate methane gas which may be used to fuel power generators.     Methane is 25 times worse than CO2 as greenhouse gas, and it stays within the atmosphere for around 12 years before transforming into CO2 and water vapor.  Sequestering methane from generatio...