Spill the Tea: Current Conditions and External Factors Affecting EnTEApreneurs in Lagawe, Ifugao, Philippines

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Client William M. Malinao

Abstract

          Entrepreneurship is crucial to rural development. Utilizing community resources, boosting local economies, and enhancing company capacities are all necessary for rural development. As a result, this study presents the current conditions and external factors affecting enTEApreneurs in Lagawe, Ifugao as a basis for a thorough recommendation towards a sustainable herb tea industry in the locality. Specifically, this study explored current conditions of the herb tea enTEApreneurs based on One Town One Product Criteria. Moreover, this study determined the access to finance, technology, market, social infrastructures, and environmental factors among heb tea enTEApreneurs. To achieve the stated study aims, both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed. A researcher-made questionnaire with eight (8) enTEApreneurs as well as key informant interviews with five (5) local government unit officials and government agency representatives were used to gather information and shed light on stated objectives. Based on the One Town One Product (OTOP) in the Philippines using weighted means and inductive analysis, findings revealed that local tea herb products are in good condition as reflected in their product quality, product design, packaging and labeling, marketing strategies, branding, production, delivery, and financial capability, innovations, good customer experience and integration of cultural value to their product and processes. Additionally, enTEApreneurs have access to a range of governmental infrastructure supports in terms of the commercial, social, and technical spheres. However, it can be noted that enTEApreneurs do have access to finance provided by identified government agencies. Thus, enTEApreneurs started to develop their products to meet the needs and standards of consumers and other agencies towards reaching a larger market, making herb tea products to have the potential to be widely distributed and recognized. With this, thorough recommendations in areas of current condition and external factors affecting the business were forwarded to identified government agencies and to enTEApreneurs to strengthen the tea industry in the locality for sustainable rural development.


Keywords:  Access to Finance, Cultural Value, Entrepreneurship, Herb Tea EnTEApreneurs, One Town One Product, Product Potentials

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MALINAO, Client William M.. Spill the Tea: Current Conditions and External Factors Affecting EnTEApreneurs in Lagawe, Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), [S.l.], v. 16, n. 3, p. 35-54, aug. 2023. ISSN 2985-0231. Available at: <https://www.journal.nu.ac.th/JCDR/article/view/Vol-16-No-3-2023-35-54>. Date accessed: 30 apr. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.14456/jcdr-hs.2023.24.