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\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nMahyco International Pte. Ltd (mipl)<\/b> was entering the Philippines market with a hybrid rice seed brand for the first time. There was no social media presence, no audience, no recall or recognition, be it for the brand or the company behind it.<\/p>\n
However, the opportunity was real. The Philippines has about 5 million hectares of agricultural land under rice cultivation with only 30% of hybrid seed adoption. Additionally, there is also a full government subsidy on hybrid seeds. Digitally, this market has the highest penetration of Facebook in Southeast Asia. However the Filipino farmers are not really influenced by Advertising. Land holdings are small, farmers are trade-savvy and retailers carry little influence on buying decisions. The trigger to decision-making is peer proof and demo plots. The communication challenge was a relatively unknown brand claiming \u2018Good Quality Eating\u2019. The benefit was primarily sensorial.<\/p>\n
MHC 2 is about Good Eating Quality.<\/b><\/p>\n
Taste, aroma and quality in the bowl and not just yield in the field. In a category that sells almost entirely on tonnage, MHC 2’s advantage was sensorial, and it reached beyond the farmer to the family at the dinner table.<\/p>\n
Move the camera off the product and onto the reaction to it.<\/b><\/p>\n
Sensorials like aroma, good eating quality is difficult to communicate . You cannot shoot softness or taste. Also the close-up of white rice looks the same whichever seed it came from.<\/p>\n
So we made the farmer’s face the hero. The pause at the first mouthful, the closed eyes, the finger-kiss – a gesture that crosses every language in the market and needs no caption in either. The rice appears too, shot close and generous, steam and grain, quality you can read at a glance. You cannot put aroma in a poster. You can put the reaction to it, and let the viewer supply the rest.<\/p>\n
The claim was kept as plain as the promise: Absolutely Delicious. Good Eating Quality stamped on the pack like a seal, with the agronomic reassurances – higher yields, disease and pest tolerance, lodging tolerance held back as supporting proof rather than the headline.<\/p>\n
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