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 […]
A huge flower-shaped pastillas (milk candy) made from carabao’s milk was an unprecedented dairy product featured in this year’s Gatas ng Kalabaw (Carabao’s Milk) Festival held last August 9 at a gymnasium in San Jose City. The flower-like pastillas, measuring four feet in height and six feet in width, with a thickness of half inch, […]
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 […]
More research focus should be placed on directly addressing the problems in the carabao industry such as raising the country’s milk production from 1% to 10%, among other challenges indicated in the Value Chain Analysis (VCA). Dr. Arnel del Barrio, PCC Executive Director, made this call to PCC researchers during the Research for Development (R4D) […]
The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), Department of Education (DepEd), and the local government unit (LGU) of the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija forged an agreement last June 21 for a milk supplementation program that will reduce malnutrition incidence at least among children in Muñoz elementary schools. Representatives of the three entities signed a memorandum […]
Potential collaborations on nutrition and forage development, reproductive biotechnology, product development, breeding, and knowledge management, between the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) of Thailand and the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) were explored during the “Technical Cooperation Meeting” of the said agencies on June 22, 2017. This is following the signing of Implementing Arrangement (IA) on […]
Thirteen carabao’s milk traders gained better understanding and skills on milk quality testing as well as on the safety assurance of consumers in a consultative meeting cum training held last June 9 at the PCC national headquarters in the Science City of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija. The meeting was aimed at encouraging the milk traders […]
More deliberate steps in collecting and processing information for research projects are needed in order to come up with usable outputs for the dairy industry. This was stressed by Dr. Synan Baguio, Supervising Science Research Specialist of the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development-Livestock Research Division […]
