A veterinarian from Osaka, Japan, Dr. Asuka Kunisawa, 34, decided to join the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) in the Philippines to help smallhold dairy farmers. Using her bicycle, she pedals her way from the PCC National Headquarters and Gene Pool to reach the barangays of Licaong and Catalanacan in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija where she […]
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 […]
Effective public service delivery through empowered human resources – this was the driving force behind the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) for obtaining Maturity Level 2 of the enhanced Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM) of the Civil Service Commission (CSC). The PRIME-HRM is the accreditation program of the CSC for […]
Revisiting the carabao sanctuary in Calayan Island, a 15-hour travel by land from the Philippine Carabao Center headquarters in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, one would immediately feel relieved of the long haul because of the raw beauty that is awaiting to be revealed! A warm greeting from a Calayano even makes the […]
There’s really no big, hidden secret if one is bent on chalking up in record books about the high milk production capacity among dairy buffaloes. Take it up from the experts. And one of the factors is the big letter “N”, which stands for “Nutrients”. Dairy buffaloes must partake sufficient nutrients to reach their optimum […]
The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) thru its national bull farm located in Caranglan, Nueva Ecija exerts efforts to produce quality semen for widescale Artificial Insemination (AI) in support of its Genetic Improvement Program (GIP). Successful AI and GIP necessitate quality semen, which is anchored on proper donor bull management practices. According to bull farm manager […]
ABOUT a decade ago, the usual talk in pained tone by the farmers in a village in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, was their unremitting bondage to hopelessness. Their harvests from their rice and vegetable farming have been in an up-and-down state, their margin of profit in a pittance as cost of inputs goes higher, […]
