Carabao milk to help increase farmers incomes, this is what the Bohol Dairy Production and Marketing Enterprise is looking at in 2020, and its plan to infuse foreign breeds into the local breeds may increase milk production, a project funded now by the WB-DA PRDP. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
TAGBILARAN CITY, Sept 14 (PIA)–From 120,000 liters produced in 2015, Bohol Dairy Processing and Marketing Enterprise (BDPME) taps a P9,227,528.64 loan and equity from local sources to hit close to 200,000 liters of carabao milk in 2020, which will mean between 5-7% annual increase of family incomes from this year onwards.
With a loan from the World Bank at P4.470 million and both P1.490 million from the government of the Philippines, the Provincial Government and another P1.777 million equity, the Bohol Dairy Processing and Marketing Enterprise enhances the present enterprise in Bohol already set up in the National Dairy Farm Complex in Lomangog, Ubay, Bohol.
Still picking up what can be salvaged from the fire that razed its assets and freak accidents that caused substantial losses in capital and manpower, the new pitch relies on the Bohol Dairy Producers Association (Bohol Dairy), according to project brief provided by the World Bank Implementation Support Mission now gathered in Bohol until Wednesday.
The marketing enterprise will do this ambitious plan by procuring raw milk products for the 23 identified clusters to 27 after 4 years, involving some 504 farmer dairy carabao growers to a projected 2424 farmers in 2020.
The plan also intends to expand to other farmers and increase farm animal holding capacity for maximized dairy production.
Now helping farmers set up milk production in 35 barangays in Ubay, Mabini, ALicia, Dagohoy and San Miguel, BDPME aspires from the stock infusion from the nearby Philippine Carabao Center (PCC).
Resting inside the PCC, the dairy processing plant also proposed to ask the PCC to upgrade local carabao breeds via genetic development or cross breeding to increase milk production.
The project then entails milk collection, consolidation of milk collected from farmer members to the association of Bohol Dairy, tolling and processing at the PCC and national Dairy Authority Plant to storage as well as marketing in identified retail outlets, which the NDA plans to be located in tourism areas in Bohol, according to PCC sources.
BDPME is now set for funding by the World Bank-Department of Agriculture Philippine Rural Development Project (WB-DA PRDP) for Investments in Rural Enterprises and Agriculture and fisheries Activity Program (I-REAP) (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
