Our LOGIC impact framework focuses on measuring our impact looking at income increases for small and medium-size farmers. This includes outputs like time savings in harvesting, yield wasteage reductions and how farmers use less resources through a mechanisation service.
The following snapshot captures some of our growing impact, as of December 2017
“I am a 71-year old man. I’ve been doing farm work for the past forty years. We used to work cows and bullock for tilling the land, and used labourer for harvesting which meant we had to go and find labourers from far-flung areas that was challenging. We’ve been using tractors and harvesters, starting three years ago. For tractors, we source and use them from our own village. For harvesters, we have to sub-lease these from the brokers who source and bring machines from other places. As there are limited machines, we all have to queue to use each machine.
“I used to rent machines from other people, but it was a headache as they never kept their words. They said they will come tomorrow, and then disappeared like smoke. And I was always harvesting late, and then would till my land late for the next paddy seasn. Now working directly with Tun Yat makes our life easier. All our paddy are harvested on time this year and now, we are already planning and arranging our work for the summer paddy, saving us a week in advance planning and set-up before the next tilling process starts.“
“I only own some farm starting from this year. I used harvesting service from Tun Yat. For small farmer like us, its not an easy job to get the machines. Thank you so much for harvesting my paddy. Tun yat harvested well, it saved my paddy from becoming waste and increasing my income 30000 MMK per acre.”
”I only have five acres of farm land. I used to worry whenever harvesting time comes as no harvester owner wanted to come and harvest for small acres like my five. Machine owners only want to come if they get a guarantee from the big farmers. Even when they come, my farm-land is their last priority and so my paddy is only harvested after all the big farmers’ fields. This year brings a good luck to me. I’m so happy to meet with Tun Yat. Now, all my paddy are already harvested on time reducing wasted yield from paddy by 20%. And I was able to meet my supplier credit payments on time and was able to pay all the machine renting fees upfront.”
