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In a brief message by the Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Department of Agriculture (DA), and DA-Biotechnology Program Steering Committee Chair, Undersecretary Segfredo R. Serrano, he stressed the use of biotechnology as a tool in livestock productivity amidst the challenges in climate change and scarcity of land resources for agriculture during the 2nd International Livestock […]

Fueled by an optimized natural resource-the carabao’s milk, an end to the poverty of smallholder-farmers and their families is possible, according to Marie Cavosora, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Calaboo, a Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm Social Enterprise. She emphasized this during an innovation workshop titled “Advancing Dairy Products through Technology Development” held at the […]

Very impressive!”, said Dr. Antarjo Dikin, Director of the Centre for Plant Quarantine and Biosafety, Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, in response to the carabao research program of the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) last August 25 during his visit at its National Headquarters in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. Dikin, head […]

The use of rice straws as fodder for feeding carabaos is a better way to dispose these rice farm by-products compared to open-field burning. This was stressed by Dr. Daniel Aquino, animal nutrition expert and Center Director of the Philippine Carabao Center at Central Luzon State University (PCC@CLSU) in the heels of widespread farmer’s practice […]

Eighty participants from two provinces in the north attended a seminar on Health Management and Common Diseases of Buffaloes conducted recently at the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), Batac City, Ilocos Norte and organized by the Philippine Carabao Center at MMSU. Three veterinarians from the Biosafety and Environment Section of the PCC National Headquarters and […]

Reduction of malnutrition cases and opening of opportunities for income generation among farmers were seen as big benefits that will come from a newly inaugurated dairy production and processing center in a village in Santa, Ilocos Sur. This optimistic view was emphasized by Governor Ryan Singson during the inauguration recently of the center in Barangay […]

Milk supplementation carried out for daycare children in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija and Talibon, Bohol for 120 days proved to achieve significant results. Evaluation of the outcome of the program showed that none of the previously reported 123 underweight children in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija remained malnourished after the milk supplementation.  On the other hand, the number […]