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FOR HARD WORK, PAY-OFFS ARE WITHIN REACH

BY CHARLENE JOANINO AND MA. THERESA SAWIT Juggling responsibilities in managing a buffalobased business and taking care of the family’s daily needs may seem to be hard-knock. But for Emily Velasco of Villa Joson, San Jose City, multitasking and yet being productive is possible as long as you put your heart into both.A mother of […]

BUFFALO FARMING PAVES WAY FOR CLOSER FAMILY TIES PLUS ECONOMIC BENEFITS, TOO

BY CHARLENE CORPUZ Being a member of Pao Producers Cooperative in Lupao, Nueva Ecija, Roderick Tallar, together with his wife Shirley, fulfilled PCC’s requirements and had availed of two Brazilian Murrah buffaloes under the agency’s dairy buffalo module in 2010. A year after, another dairy buffalo, which was pregnant at that time, was entrusted to […]

DAIRY BUFFALO RAISING: A FARMING COUPLE’S STAIRWAY TO SUCCESS

BY MA. CECILIA IRANG AND ANSELMO ROQUE A farming couple, Victoriano and Dominga Dumale, of barangay Licaong, Science City of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija, was known to many in their village for literally sleeping in pen where their buffaloes are sheltered.What’s their reason behind the odd practice? “To make sure that our animals can stay […]

DETERMINATION, LOVE, SACRIFICE POWER SUCCESS

BY CHARLENE JOANINO AND CHRISSALYN MARCELO Tinges of pain fill the heart of Henry Orbino of Calinog, Iloilo whenever he looks back to his humble beginnings then as a struggling worker. Now, he proudly proclaims that buffalo dairying buried all those seemingly unsurmountable challenges that befell him then.He used to work in a bakery in […]

SAN JOSE CITY COUPLEREGARDS BUFFALO DAIRYING‘MANNA FROM HEAVEN’

SAN JOSE CITY COUPLE REGARDS BUFFALO DAIRYING ‘MANNA FROM HEAVEN’ BY MA. CECILIA IRANG At the onset, married life for Samuel and Erlinda Mercader of barangay San Agustin, San Jose City in Nueva Ecija was a bit rough.They were both farmworkers in someone else’s farm. Samuel sidelined as a construction worker for extra income.In 2000, […]