Rey Anthony
H. Chiu
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 a production of 200,000
liters of carabao milk in 2020.
This will mean between
5% to 7% annual increase of family income from this year onwards.
With a loan
from World Bank at P4.470 million, another P1.490 million from Philippine
government and the Provincial Government, and 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 a 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). (rmn/rac/PIA-7/Bohol)