Powers and Functions

RA 7307, which was signed on March 27, 1992 and operationalized on April 1, 1993, provides that DA-PCC’s powers and functions are:

Conserve, propagate and promote the Philippine carabao as a source of draft animal power, meat, milk and hide;

Enable the farmers, particularly smallholder-farmers and CARP beneficiaries, to avail themselves of good quality carabao stocks at all times and at reasonable prices

through an organized program of production, breeding, training, and dispersal;

Undertake training programs for farmers, particularly smallholder-farmers and CARP beneficiaries, designed to transfer technology on the proper care and reproduction of the carabao and the processing of its meat and milk;

Encourage backyard dairy development in rural areas by raising carabaos so as to meet the nutritional needs of the smallholder-farmers and their families and reduce dependence on imported milk byproducts;

Undertake research activities in all disciplines that lead to the improvement of the overall productivity of the Philippine carabao;

Increase the existing annual population growth of the Philippine carabao to keep pace with human population growth;

Enter into memoranda of agreement and receive donations through the Department of Agriculture from local and foreign sources. Upon the recommendation of the DA-PCC Advisory Board, the individual carabao centers may enter into agreements directly with funding agencies through their respective board of regents or head of agency.