Not a few animal experts have expressed the fear of losing the blood lines of the native carabaos. Their fear is not totally baseless, though. The heightened efforts on improving the breed of native carabaos, by way of artificial insemination and the fielding of quality bulls of the imported breed, are on-going and thousands of […]
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1st National Carabao Conference
Key stakeholders of the Carabao Development Program (CDP) are expected to participate in the 1st National Carabao Conference on Dec. 3-4 at the national headquarters and gene pool of the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. The participants will include farmers, local government officials and representatives from various government […]
PCC head leads groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of new bull farm
Carabao raising added feature in PhilRice’s ‘Palayamanan Plus’
Raising dairy carabaos is now an added feature of “Palayamanan Plus Nuestra”, a project of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice). Rizal G. Corales, supervising science research specialist and project leader, said the add-on will further boost the income of participating farmers. He explained that the project title is a combination of the words “Palayamanan” […]
PCC at DMMMSU center director receives National CSC Pagasa award
Carabao dairy farmers converge to discuss 2M liters milk target for 2016
Carabao farmer-members of dairy cooperatives being assisted by the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) in Nueva Ecija province recently met in a general assembly to discuss their respective contribution in attaining the target of two million liters of milk for 2016. A total of 53 participants joined the November 4 assembly held at the PCC national […]
Carabao feedlot fattening is a profitable business venture for farmers, study says
There’s more to carabaos than just as sources of milk and draft power. They offer big potential too for the meat industry as an increase in the slaughter rate of carabaos for meat or “carabeef” is an indicator of its growing market demand. A study conducted by the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) at the University […]
PCC staff attends ASEAN cooperative conference in Malaysia
PCC staff, dairy farmers take part in international conference on agribusiness and cooperatives
Selected staff of the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) whose work functions are related to business and cooperatives and five chairmen of dairy cooperatives in PCC’s National Impact Zone (NIZ) participated in the Joint International Conference on Agribusiness and Cooperatives held October 14-17 in Davao City. The PCC-led group comprised Alvin David of the Planning and […]
