Rey Anthony H. Chiu
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, August 20 (PIA) – Like the phoenix that rises
from the ashes, Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) at the Ubay Stock Farm in
Lomangog is now readying to serve tourists and general public with its Bohol
carabao dairy outlet.
Now ready with their complete line of dairy of products ranging
from carabao milk, cheese, processed dairy products including known Bohol
cheesy sweets: torta, pastillas, cheese puto, chocobao, freshmilk, carabao ice
cream and many more dairy products, PCC also recently opened its Milka
Krèm Plant and its first Bohol Dairy outlet in Lumangog.
This is the first step in the plan to put up carabao milk and
processed dairy products outlet in the effort to saturate Bohol with carabao
milk and its products.
The ultimate dream is to put up Bohol Dairy Outlets in all tourism
destinations in Bohol, shared Lenie Fe Libres, PCC information officer.
Libres, a developmental communications graduate at Leyte State
University, told the tourism product development team assembled by Japan
International Cooperation (JICA) for its eco-tourism Bohol project that few
people see the potential of carabao milk.
Fifteen years ago, Bohol was a non-dairy area until 1982 when the
Philippine Carabao Research and Development Center was established and did
extensive research on the farm animal.
A decade later, the center, located at the Ubay Stock Farm in
Bohol, started milking carabaos, a largely rare thing in a province whose
idea of a carabao is only as a beast of burden and a meat source.
Five years after the 1992 successful milking of carabaos, PCC
started processing chocomilk and freshmilk manually until three years later
when the processing plant was put up, Libres recalled.
By 2010, PCC research went out of their laboratories when the milk
processing reached their farmer adoptors who loaned bulls to improve the native
breds.
Now in the towns of Dagohoy, San Miguel Trinidad and some few more
towns with the potential for carabao daily development, the PCC also loans
bulls to upgrade the local breeds.
At the PCC, the eco-tourism stop includes a briefing on the PCC
and the Bohol Dairy Development, carabao milk and dairy products
refreshments, a chance to watch mechanized milking, manually milk the carabaos,
watch calves feed, learn the basics of animal care and a brief glimpse of the
paddocks where milking cows freely graze. (rmn/rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
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