Interview

(Purpose related question/s)

What is a wet market?

“A wet market (also called a public market) is a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and other perishable
goods as distinguished from "dry markets" that sell durable goods such as fabric and electronics. Not all wet markets
sell live animals, but the term wet market is sometimes used to signify a live animal market in which vendors slaughter
animals upon customer purchase, such as is done with poultry in Hong Kong. Wet markets are common in many parts
of the world, notably in China, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. These include a wide variety of markets, such
as farmers' markets, fish markets, and/or wildlife markets. They often play critical roles in urban food security due to
factors of pricing, freshness of food, social interaction, and local cultures.”

How important are wet-markets? How does it affect our everyday lives? “ Wet
markets are an important source of food especially for rural people, like the poor. In wet markets, a wide variety of fresh
and nutritious food can be purchased at affordable prices. The food is mainly sourced from local farmers. Wet markets
affects us in a way were we do our daily activities most of us wake up early to buy fresh new goods in wet markets or
you are the trader who works in wet market as a source of income and doing it for a living and as these habits becomes
parts of our lives so are the people we interact and build intimacy in there either you’re the customer or the trader.”

What are the advantages of a Wet Market?

 “Global Market Value - With a growing population, the rise in global meat consumption has also grown
prominently. The wet market comprising all the types of sellers contributes to the global revenue. The growing
trend of protein intake among health-conscious consumers has also amplified the consumption of meat
products and is expected to drive the market revenue over the coming years.”

 “Employment- Wet Market paces are centralized hubs for people from the middle & lower-middle classes.
Such places are a perfect place to set small-scale meat and agro-industry. Sellers have the least investments
to make and are more likely to take profits from what is sold over the stall. Wet markets are a good start for
meat farmers and independent sellers and promise a better income than a day job .”
 “Ease of Access to Consumers- You can buy vegetables from one stall and get meat from the one next to it.
Where wet markets are beneficial for farmers to meet costumers easily, consumers also get the advantages of
wet market by finding every needed item in one place. They don’t need to look for edibles elsewhere as
everything they need is available in one place. The farm and poultry produce are comparatively cheaper than
the packaged and preserved food, which encourages people to buy more of such products and edibles at
affordable rates .”
(Concern/s related question/s)

Why do you go to wet-markets, instead of going to a supermarket? What are the

differences between the two?What are the supplies available in wet-markets that
are not available in the supermarket, or vice-versa? “ Wet markets offer a higher diversity of
fruits, grains and vegetables as compared to supermarkets. This is because the food is sourced locally while
supermarkets procure high quantities of a limited number of products and goods from large wholesale markets, storing
these goods in cold storage, often for long periods of time.”

How do you describe the accessibility and cleanliness of the facilities in the wet-
markets? Are there enough facilities like the comfort rooms that can cater the
users of the place? The Public Market or the Palengke is the face of business in the different cities and
municipalities of the country, particularly in the non-metropolis areas. However, the typical public market is usually
characterized by poor waste management and sanitation standards, presence of unscrupulous vendors, lack of a
redress mechanism for consumer complaints, and no established systems of operations. Ironically, the public market
should be a clean and well-kept place considering that this is where consumers buy their staple food.

It also lacks basic utilities such as clean comfort rooms, washing areas, consumer welfare center, police outposts,
among others. As a result, consumer protection is at stake, public safety and security is uncertain, cleanliness, and
sanitation is similarly a problem.

What is the demand of sufficient space for vehicle parking? Are there enough
spaces reserved for parking? “To better calculate the parking space needed in wet markets there is a
rule to follow that states that The overall site area required to accommodate the covered space should be in the ratio of
between 1: 4 and 1: 3. This would mean that for every square metre of covered sales space an additional three to four
square metres of site would be required. Exceptionally, this factor can be reduced to 1:2.5 if the site area is very limited
and increased to 1: 5 if much of the trading is likely to be undertaken in the open. The overall  site area in square
metres can thus be derived by multiplying the gross market area by a factor of 2.5 to 5 to allow for traffic circulation,
parking areas and site landscaping. Decisions on road design, carriageway widths, the size of parking bays and
sidewalk widths will be fundamental in creating an economic layout which achieves the turnover standard.”

Is the wet market’s atmosphere and structure itself friendly to other structures
and buildings especially houses? ‘The relationship between other structures and to wet markets was
investigated in several studies. Some suggest that when it comes to proximity the increase in distance to wet markets
may decrease dietary diversity and increase food insecurity. Restricted access to wet markets, in particular, can reduce
healthy food consumption. In contrast, other studies maintain that there is no causal linkage between access to wet
markets and dietary diversity. So basically the closer wet markets are to structures such us family dwellings the more
economically efficient it is when it comes to the consumption of money but because of its unhygienic environment other
structures would get affected like when the odor and noises from the wet market passes through these buildings”

Is there enough space in the market that people can practice social distancing?
‘Usually Wet Markets are large and open and because of that more people could go inside this leads to more
interactions between consumers and producers, that’s why it is a crowded and noisy place adding to it the proximity of
each stalls to each other which is unavoidable for buyers and sellers to maintain social distancing”

(Problem related question/s)

What are the disadvantages of wet markets?
 “Unhygienic and Unsanitized Environment - Wet markets have all sorts of unhygienic practices. Since setting
up a stall is easy for vendors, no hygienic practices are followed in order to save extra money. The worsened
hygienic practices in meat markets are totally ignored by vendors where fresh meat is chopped and filleted at
the same vending stall used for storing the other animals. Both the farmed and exotic animals are kept in
cramped cages that are poorly maintained. Unsanitary enclosures are a friendly source for Zoonotic diseases to
mutate and evolve as a vending stall is where animals are dispatched for fillet, with their fecal matter littered at
the same place.”

 “Unmanageable and malpractice in handling proper food and animal safety management system -
The problem is that none knows whether a particular market is regulated or abides by the market rules. This
fact solidifies more concerns about food safety and its major risks for the global population, these wet
markets sometimes also carry live animals — occasionally including illegal, sometimes exotic, wildlife — bought
and slaughtered on the spot, increasing chances for the spread of disease”.

(Operation Related question/s)

How are the hygiene and food safety operations of the wet market doing?

“Certainly, one problem of wet markets is maintaining hygiene and food safety standards. Often animals are
slaughtered in the market itself and near the common areas where the public also shops. This may mean that the meat
is being kept in poor hygienic conditions. There are often no cooling facilities and a lack of appropriate equipment
including clean knives and cutting surfaces. The treatment of effluents from animal slaughter bears a significant
hygienic risk to the environment and human health.

Hygiene in markets is essential. Traditional wet markets must commit to serve their customers safe and fresh food from
local producers. IFAD has invested in improving rural markets. Very successful examples can be visited in Bangladesh,
where the Market Infrastructure Development Project in Charland Regions and the Coastal Climate Resilient
Infrastructure projects improved the market infrastructure and enhanced the hygiene standards. Infrastructure alone is
not sufficient. Policies and standards must be issued and implemented to warrant the existence of wet markets as safe
food providers for the rural people and the poor.”

Are supermarkets and wet markets in competition?

“In urban areas, wet markets and supermarkets co-exist, while in rural areas, wet markets are often the sole source of
food supply. Both market types have advantages. Supermarkets implement better hygienic standards and can track the
sources of their supplies in case something goes wrong. However, not all customers trust the freshness labels in
supermarkets. These customers prefer the vendors in the wet market whom they know and trust, often over several
years. Prices are usually lower in wet markets too. Hence, it is easier for poor people to afford fresh and nutritious food.
Also, in remote rural areas of developing countries, alternatives to wet markets such as supermarkets simply do not
exist.

Poor people need to have access to affordable and nutritious food. In the rural areas of developing countries, wet
markets are often the only place where people can afford to purchase nutritious food. Local farmers, especially women,
are dependent on selling their produce in local markets. Families need this income to pay for clothing and school fees
for their children, cover medical expenses and purchase other essential items. Though closing wet markets is not a
solution, prioritising health and safety standards in rural markets is a good place to start.”
Who are the producers and consumers in wet markets?

“Usually the stall owners that produce or sells the products are small-holder local farming households, local
fishmongers , small traders and vendors. While the consumers are usually the local people.”

(Space req question)

What are the usual space requirements needed in wet markets?

Parking for:

- Customers (cars, motorcycles)

- Receiving & Delivery (at most is 6 wheeler truck)

Administration Office

Clinic

Police Station

Public Toilets

Wet Market Section:

- Meat Section

- Fish Section

- Vegetable Section

- Fruit Section

- Poultry/Rice Section

- Canned/Dairy Products/Etc Section

- Flower Section

- Ice Section
- ETC.
Establish Architectural Parameters

(The Site)

(Lot Plan) Setbacks and Easements:

Contextual Data (Architectural, Historical, Social Factors):

Architectural: Typical Market Characteristics: The main factors are taken into account when improving an existing
market or designing a new one are as follows:
  adequate space provision is essential, for sales areas, storage, administration, specialised facilities,
circulation and, especially, parking;
 ideally, this space provision should allow both for future expansion needs and for adjusting the space
utilization of the market to match management requirements to meet changing social and economic
circumstances;
 building designs should also allow the maximum amount of flexibility for change;
 for peak periods, and for simple rural and urban retail markets, emphasis should be given to the use of
low-cost covering of sales areas, either by using permanent light-weight shade structures or retractable
blinds;
 building designs should avoid, as far as possible, different floor/road levels. These prevent the use of
both simple handcarts and more sophisticated handling facilities; and
 there are clear advantages for maximising market efficiency and for reducing congestion by the
adoption of an organised approach to traffic control and by using controlled parking. This is usually
achieved by segregating pedestrian and hand-cart movement from heavy delivery vehicles

Historical:

Social factors : Like streets, sidewalks, street markets, playgrounds, parks, and community centers, public markets are
public spaces where people can relax, chat, stroll, shop, and exercise their communal freedom to be in that space.
Public markets can assume different sizes, shapes, smells, and stockpiles depending on where they are located and
how they are managed. As the Project for Public Spaces outlines, however, public markets share three key
characteristics (PPS 2003)

: 1. Public markets uphold public goals and promote community engagement

2. Public markets are located in or create a shared community space

3. Public markets are comprised of local owners and operators

Based on these characteristics, public markets are places that stimulate the local economy because they provide local
people with the opportunity to buy and sell local goods.

Building and Zoning requirements: