JOSEE'S FAMILY

Red bean crop growing beside a bowl of what we'll harvest, usually cooked in tomato sauce - and eaten with rice, together they make up the main staple food around here.



Seeding after the horse broke the land, Julito eating sugarcane

Milsiarde, Josee and wife Nena drying coffee, one of the 4 families who received a cement floor for their house Nena just had her first baby so this will contribute to a healthier life for him. Thanks to Sue StYves for financing putting in a floor!


Oranges from José's tree - am telling Nena "you press the big button!" they live up the mountain where it's half coffee half forest, coffee grower, always smily and offering something.


Julito my main agriculture associate, his 2 grandkids Diana and Alexanderon on the left and his niece Arrabelli on the right
the tank is for cooking with gas when there is money for it, otherwise we use wood


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DETAILS OF FIGURES, PROFITS AND LOSSES, BY FAMILIES IN 2006 :

- In my own investments, monetary gains are hopefully made by the families I support, while I keep a small percentage of benefits to get by myself - However monetary losses, if they occur, are incurred by myself only.

- in 2006 - 2 weeks of rain did in the peppers, cucumbers, onions.

* * * Total salaries for work in the fields = $95 650 pesos ($3,271.82 CAD) went straight into the community in 2006, this is significant as there is high unemployment, as well it helped some students pay for university.

SYNOPSIS:
- Julito's tomatoes - he made $1702.94 canadian - (I made same figure to make up for my other crop losses)

- Julito's beans - he made $85.00 canadian (I made same figure) and about 2.5 month's supply of beans for Julito's family.

- Neero's tomatoes - crop made $5.15 canadian, I left him with $108 canadian to pay his work.

- William's + Fabio's cucumbers - loss of their labor time in field, I lost part of investment, - $9795 pesos loss (minus - $336.15 CAD loss)

- Josée's peppers - he made $102.86 canadian as I bought off his %50 the crop while the crop was in it's growing stages, so the crop became 100% mine ( he left to tend to moving his family ) - after rain and harvest I lost part of investment, -$11400 pesos loss (minus -$390.89 CAD loss)

- Josée's onions - he lost time in field, I lost total investment, -$2500 pesos loss (minus -$85.65 CAD loss)


Total gains and losses together averaged out that I came out on top with a $ 980.93 CAD profit as an investor (which went into helping with next crops to harvest in 2007).



DETAILS :
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Julito's family (Tomatoes in 2006 - successfull profit) ( tomatoes suffered from rain and disease but we came out on top)
Total Costs Invested = $213, 013 pesos - ($ 7,312.00 CAD)
Crop Made $312,290 pesos - ($ 10,719.00 CAD)
Profit = $99,227 pesos - ($ 3,406.00 CAD)
Profit divided by 2 = each got $49,613 pesos - ($1,702.94 CAD each)

* a used fumigator, an essential piece of equipment, was purchased for everyone's use using tomato profits, they are part of costs, $8000pesos or $ 273.98 CAD.
* about 95% of salaries were derived from Julito's tomato crop as it was labor intensive.
total salaries = $95 650 pesos ($3,271.82 CAD) which went straight into the community.

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Neero's family (Tomatoes in 2006 - small profit) (he did his own labour, tomatoes suffered from rain and disease)
Total Costs Invested 13,526pesos ($464.294 CAD)
Crop Made - 13,825pesos ($474.535 CAD)
Profit = 300 pesos ($10.30 CAD)
Profit divided by 2 = $150 pesos ($5.15 CAD each) ** gave him extra $3000pesos to encourage him ($103.00 CAD)

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Julito's family (Bean crop in 2005 semi-successful)
Total Costs Invested $25 000 pesos ($855.00 CAD)
Crop Made $30,000 pesos ($1,026.24 CAD)
Profit = $ 5000 pesos ($171.06 CAD)
Profit divided by 2 = $2500 pesos ($85.53 CAD each + 2.5 month's supply of beans)


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William's + Fabio's families (Cucumbers were rained out, incurred loss) (they did their own labour and worked together)
Total Costs Invested $10,845pesos ($372.19 CAD)
Crop Made (recovered) - $1050pesos ($36 CAD)
Loss $9795 pesos ($336.15 CAD)

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Josee's family (Peppers were rained out, I incurred loss) ( he did his own labor)
* Total Costs Invested $18,850 pesos ($646.494 CAD)
Crop Made $7450 pesos ($255.48 CAD)
Loss $11400 pesos ($390.89 CAD)

* Total costs includes me buying off pepper crop for $3000 pesos ($102.86 CAD) to free Josee up, this was before the rain, he had to tend to moving his family - so I became sole owner of peppers. Josee made $3000 pesos ($102.86 CAD).

Josee's family again (Onions were rained out) ( he did his own labor)
Total cost $2500 pesos ($85.65 CAD)
Loss was total $2500 pesos ($85.65 CAD)

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TOTALS

- $1793.62 CAD my total profit MINUS losses of $812.69 CAD = $980.93 CAD gain or total average profit from gains and losses of all crops. This profit is going into paying for a crop of peppers already in - so far $40,000.00 pesos ($1,369.90 CAD) have been put into peppers. Harvest should be in January, will keep you posted.


I came back to Winnipeg to try to make more cash so that the next investments would not be so nerve racking.
Was not so successful in working in Winnipeg which is why I hope to open this idea up to other investors.






best mama in the world (eating her famous soup) who put up with me back home and helped so much, thanks to dad too for donating $500 for a crop.


Gua - and his 2 kids + 1 neighbor kid - he's our 'energizer bunny' worker, still hoping to make enough to fix his motorbike ... finds sporadic work in agriculture in the region. I hope to help fund him to put in a crop sooner or later.




French teacher and friend from San Jose de Ocoa, kids from his neighborhood