I.

General Information
Name of Respondent:_____________________________________________
Municipality:_______________ Age of Respondent:____
Sex of Respondent: ________
Education Level of the Respondent (√): Marital Status (√):
[ ] No formal education [ ] Married
[ ] Kindergarten [ ] Unmarried
[ ] Elementary [ ] Divorced
[ ] Elementary Graduate [ ] Widowed
[ ] High School
[ ] High School Graduate
[ ] College
[ ] College Graduate
Others (Please Specify): ____________

Distance of household from the nearest market center:

Distance of household from the civet feces collection area:

II. Coffee Producing Activities

1. How much of Civet coffee did you collect last year? How is the trend of your
production? Is it increasing? Decreasing? Why do you think so?
How much ground Production % sold % consumed Income
did you cover as generated from
compared to the sales
total area of land
that can be
searched for civet
dung

3. What coffee varieties is dominant in the area? How many coffee trees are there?
Does it affect the number of civet cats that frequent the place?

4. How long have you collected civet excretions? _____years.

5. In what form do you sell your product? What activities do you do before you sell your
product? What activities do you do to add value on your product?
6. What problems do you encounter in making your product? What do you think have
caused them? How do you resolve them?
7. What are your inputs of civet coffee production during last year? How much are those
inputs?
8. From which source did you get such agricultural inputs in the civet coffees production
process? Have you encountered problems in accessing these inputs? How do you
resolve them?

9. Civet Coffee actor’s linkages

Indicate the relationship you have with other organizations
Channel Linkage* If linkage= yes; If linkage= If linkage yes
Actors Nature of Yes; How frequency of
linkage** Much do you meeting/year****
trust***
Farmers
Trader
Consumer

*: = Yes; = No
**: = informal; = verbal arrangement; = written agreement
***: = distrust; = a little trust; = some trust; = full trust
****: = ones; = twice; = three; = regularly
Do you have any relationships with other actors not listed in the table? How is your
linkage with them?
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
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III. Support
9. Did you borrow money for civet coffee production before? If yes, where and why?
10. Have you faced any problem in accessing credit? How did you solve these
problems?
10. Are you a member of any cooperative? Why did you decide to join the cooperative?
10. How do you transport your coffee beans from house to market? What means of
transportation do you use? What problems have you encountered in transporting your
beans to the market? How do you resolve them?
11. How did you learn about civet cat feces collection?
12. Have you ever participated in civet coffee production system training in the last
three years? If your answer for No, why? If your answer for is Yes, what was it about
and for how long you have got the training?
13. Do you think the training is effective? What do you think are the problems as
regards to the training?
14. Did you get advisory service on coffee production practices before? How long did
you get the service? Who provides the advisory service? Do you think the advisory
service is effective?
15. Source of coffee production, marketing and consumption research/innovation in
your area? Were you able to apply or use the research/innovation?
16. Have you ever participated in problem identification and/or research-planning?
V. Marketing
17. Did you sell civet coffee before? If no, why did you not sell? If yes, how much and
to whom did you sell your production?
Average return of coffee crops? (Paano f iba ibang price for ibat ibang bumibili)
Selling price (Php/qt)
Total cost (Php/qt):
Breakdown of cost:

18. Do you get to choose to whom you sell your product to? If no why? Is your product
contracted?
19. Do you also sell other varieties of coffee? Among all those varieties which is the
most demanded? Which is the least? Why do you think so?
20. How much does the prices vary depending on the form in which you sold it? Why do
you think so?
21. How is the trend of price per unit of sales of coffee during the last 5 years? Why do
you think is the trend this way?
22. Would you like to expand coffee selling? Why or why not?
23. What interventions, (if there are any) do you think are needed to improve quantity
and quality of coffee production to attract better prices?
24. Do you consider quality requirement of your customers in your production process?
Why or why not?
25. Do you have marketing information (Price, marketplace, buyer’s information) last
year? From whom did you get the market information? What type of information did you
get? Was the information you get valuable?
26. What price mechanism do you use? Who sets your selling price for coffee in last
year?
27. Did you face difficulty in finding buyers when you wanted to sell coffees? Why?
28. What do you do if you did not get the expected price for your coffees supply?
29. Is storage of coffees production a problem for you If your answer is Yes, indicate the
total volume of the product damaged in kilogram and then the percentage loss at field
and after harvest?
Total Loss (qt)
Kg of loss before harvest
Kg of loss after harvest

VI. Non-farm and off-farm activities

30. Do you also purchase and sell coffee products?
31. Do you practice trading activities other than trading of coffees products?
32. How much do you earn from such trading per market day?
33. Did you perform other income generating activities? If Yes, what are these sources
of income?