Philippine Carabao Center

“Towards better nutrition, higher levels of income and improved general well-being of the overwhelming sector, the rural farming families… through the conservation, propagation and promotion of water buffalo as important source of milk and meat, in addition to draft power and hide.”

This is the vision and mandate of the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA). Created by virtue of Republic Act 7307 in 1992, PCC became operational in 1993, taking momentum from the gains and achievements of earlier programs. These were the UNDP/FAO-assisted projects “Strengthening of the Philippine Carabao Research and Development Center”[…] Read More