About the Susi Foundation

Susi Foundation, Inc., is a non-stock, non-profit, non-government organization serving farmers and rural workers’ groups.

Vision-Mission

Through consciousness-raising and optimizing the potential of the human spirit, create communities of farmers empowered to maintain sufficient production levels using methods that enhance the carrying capacity of the ecosystem for the sake of succeeding generations.

Goals and Objectives

To provide training and education to farmers giving emphasis on self-awareness and interpersonal relations.

To organize groups of farmers towards social and environmental concerns.

To encourage farmers to adapt economically sustainable farming practices that use renewable resources.

To research into and enhance existing organic agriculture practices to be made available to farmers for their economic benefit.

Thrust

One of the concerns of SUSI Foundation, Inc. is to enable farmers and farm workers to become self-reliant and become promoters of sustainable agriculture.

Community Services

1. People’s Development through rural enterprises and cooperatives education and organization.
2. Ecological Concerns
   1. Tree planting and citizen watch against pollution and illegal logging thru concerned cooperatives.
   2. A ten-hectare reforestation project
   3. Compost production and utilization
3. Government Partner
   1. Assistance to government programs like agrarian reform and other local government agency initiatives
   2. Citizen watch of on-going public works projects
   3. Rice industry development
      1. Technical assistance in rice crop production & post harvest technology
      2. Rice processing and marketing
   4. Organization of rural folks to avail of government projects
   5. Implementation of awarded government projects

Facilities

1. Bahay Tuklasan - a seminar house with live-in facilities for up to forty participants.
2. Rice Post Harvest Facility
   1. 2,000sqm warehouse on a 1.39 ha. lot.
   2. Four kongskilde batch dryers of 10-ton capacity each fueled by rice hulls
   3. Scancon fabricated 3-ton per hour rice mill.
   4. Automatic shift power generation ready
   5. A two-storey office
   6. Employees’ canteen

Manpower Complement For:

1. Farm Operations
2. Finance & Administrative
3. Marketing
4. Processing
5. Special Projects