Farmer-trustees from four cooperatives in the National Impact Zone (NIZ) of the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) participated in a seminar on health, nutrition improvement and family planning held at the PCC national headquarters in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija on September 1. Organized by the PCC carabao-based enterprise development (CBED) operations team, […]
The Eastern Primary Multi-Purpose Cooperative (EPMPC) based in Sibut, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija has received funding amounting to Php100,000 from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) through its Program Beneficiaries Development (PBD) for a project aimed at enhancing the coop’s village-level processing center. The undertaking was formalized during the grant turn-over and signing […]
Animal health care services will now be accessible to more dairy farmers in the National Impact Zone (NIZ) of the Carabao Development Program (CDP) with the continuous capacitation of dairy farmers as animal health assistants. These assistants are selected dairy farmers from different dairy cooperatives in the NIZ with five to 10 dairy buffaloes and […]
Many individuals choose the security of a company job. Some, however, are not afraid to take the risk of an uncertain future brought about by starting new businesses. Such is Eliseo Mislang, 35, from Sibut, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija. He started raising dairy buffaloes in 2011 as an extra venture. A couple of years […]
Every now and then, we make life-changing decisions. Romeo Araña, 56, made one such decision and has since never looked back. In fact he looks to the future with a lot of optimism. In 2006 he decided to try his hand at carabao dairying by first having his native albino carabao artificially inseminated with purebred […]
In a business venture, the entrepreneur is said to be efficient if he manages to make his business grow and prosper. It goes without saying that the real gauge of a successful enterprise is profitability as shown by regular earnings net of expenses. This is kind of scenario that Leoncio Callo and his fellow dairy […]
Another Village-based Artificial Insemination Technician (VBAIT) trained by the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) has earned recognition under the Gawad Saka Awards of the Department of Agriculture (DA). Arnolfo B. Corpuz, 51, has been adjudged as the 2013 Gawad Saka regional winner for the Ilocos Region in the Outstanding Large Animal Raiser category. He received […]
In 1987, Carlito and Julieta Alfonso, newly married and with a first baby on the way, only had a small piece of farm land and a hundred pesos to build a life on. Almost three decades later, they managed to parlay what little they had into more than 20 hectares of land, a growing herd […]
