More than 20 participants from the Philippine Carabao Center’s (PCC) regional network underwent a “Training on Integrating Digital Animal Weighing Scale and Radio Frequency Identification/Electronic Identification (RFID/EID) Readers for Buffaloes” last April 24-26, 2019 at the PCC National Headquarters and Gene Pool. The training aimed to enrich the knowledge of participants and provide them hands-on […]
The Philippine Carabao Center at Mariano Marcos State University (PCC at MMSU) participated in the week-long celebration of the 11th Farmer’s Festival at Batac City, Ilocos Norte on May 1-5, 2019. The festival is an annual celebration of the city to give due recognition to the farmers who are constant partners in agriculture and economic […]
The ceremonial slicing of a 5.3-meter-long “kesong puti” (white cheese) was the highlight of the first ever Kesong Puti Festival held last May 9 in Talavera, Nueva Ecija (N.E), which coincided with the town’s “Farmer’s Week” celebration. The cheese, weighing 245kg with a width of 1.11 meters and a thickness of 2.54 cm, is dubbed […]
In celebration of the First Filipino Food month, the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) held a hands-on training on processing of carabao’s milk particularly the creation of white cheese (kesong puti) and milk candy (pastillas de leche) last April 26 at the PCC National Headquarters and Gene Pool (NHGP) at the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva […]
The couple, Benedicto “Benny” dela Torre, 55, and Evelyn, 38, of barangay Pulong Buhangin, Santa Maria, Bulacan, has peculiar practices in conveying their sincere and profound love for their buffaloes. This unique show of special concern for their dairy buffaloes, to their estimation, undoubtedly resulted in favorable returns to their lives. As one proof, when […]
A common challenge faced by dairy farmers is to have their dairy buffaloes pregnant and, after calving, to see them get pregnant again in the shortest time possible. This is because they have no income if their animals are not lactating, which only happens if the animals give birth. To address this concern, a project […]
SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ – Farmers who are worrying about possible lowering of their income due to the effects of the Republic Act 11203, or the rice trade liberalization law may engage in other income-generating projects right in their own backyard. One such project is carabao dairying, suggested Dr. Arnel del Barrio, executive director of […]
DON CARLOS, BUKIDNON— The Philippine Carabao Center at Central Mindanao University (PCC@CMU), in partnership with the municipality of Don Carlos, spearheaded the first graduation ceremony in Bukidnon on Farmers Livestock School on Dairy Buffalo Production (FLS-DBP) at the Abellanosa’s Learning Site, San Francisco, Don Carlos, Bukidnon on April 11. The FLS-DBP classes started on August […]
Nineteen Information Officers from the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) regional network were capacitated as news and feature writers and partners in delivering information that can benefit carabao farmers and other stakeholders. Rowena Bumanlag, Knowledge Management Division-Applied Communication Section Head, said that the number of KMD personnel from the national headquarters who are doing information dissemination […]
