Marketing Procedures and Techniques in an Integrated Farming System

The following factors can help a farmer harvest, store, and market his or her products properly.

1. Practice good timing. The time to harvest plant crops and sell animal products varies depending upon its kind and varieties and the purpose it will serve. to get a better price for crops and animals products, the farmer know when supplies are low and demand for specific goods are high.
2. Protect the plant and animal product from injuries through careful harvesting and post-harvesting techniques. Injuries will greatly reduce their market potential.
3. Group your products qualitatively. Products must be graded according to size and quality since they can be priced differently. Plant products of the same variety must be grouped accordingly.
4. Be careful in harvesting and storing farm products that produces sticky soap and juices. Improper handling of this products would greatly affect their marketability.
5. If possible work up a direct-to-consumer system of marketing farm products. Marketing through a middleman should be avoided. In most cases, middlemen gain more profit than the farmers.
6. Practice collective selling. This system of disposing farm products could strengthen the farmer's bargaining power for a better price. Collective selling also ensures fast and reliable disposal of the products.