25 farmer-groups in Bohol receive broiler chicks
Twenty five farmer's associations of Bohol recently received broiler chicks and feeds amounting to P232,450 from the Department of Agriculture-Central Visayas (DA7).
DA7 Regional Executive Director Atty. Salvador D. Diputado and Bohol 1st District Representative Edgar M. Chatto, led the distribution of the 1,250 heads of broiler chicks and 87.5 sacks of feeds to the 25 farmer associations.
Diputado said that the project is part of Agriculture Secretary William Dar's Expanded Livestock and Poultry Production and Livelihood Project under the Ahon Lahat, Pagkaing Sapat (ALPAS) Kontra sa COVID-19 Response.
"In fact, the programs of our Secretary are multi-purpose. Aside from food production, the DA is also vigilant and is strengthening its measures against viral animal diseases like the African Swine Fever (ASF)," Diputado said.
He added that once our hog industry is affected with ASF, our food production supply like pork will be greatly affected.
"We are distributing chickens and letting you engage into broiler raising as an alternative livelihood from the usual hog raising, for the meantime that there is no cure or vaccine for ASF," Diputado said.
Recipients of the project included the Sikatuna Municipal-Based Native Chicken Growers Association, Bahay Bahay Farmers Association, Cansubayon Samahang Nayon Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Dauis Municipal-Based Chicken Growers Association, Calape Municipal-Based Native Chicken Growers Association, Lomboy Farmers Association, and Sagbayan Association of Farming Entrepreneurs.
Farmers' association such as Danao Municipal-Based Native Chicken Growers Association, Buenavista Women's Association, and Buenavista Municipal-Based Native Chicken Growers also got their share of the project.
DA7 also distributed the interventions to the Bien Unido Municipal-Based Native Chicken Growers Association, Tubigon Livestock & Poultry Growers Association, and Association of Dairy farmers in Tubigon, Maca-as Farmers & Fishermen's Association, Catugasan Irrigators Association, and Cadap-agan farmers Association.
Other beneficiaries of the project were Anda Brgy. Livestock Aid Association, Alicia Native Chicken Growers Association, Trinidad Native Chicken Growers Association, Sto. Nino Livelihood Farmers Association, Antequera Municipal-Based Native growers Association, Garcia Hernandez Federated farmers Association, Cambanse Farmers Association, Oy Multi-Purpose Cooperative and Botoc Salinas Irrigators Association.
Each associations received 50 heads of day-old broiler chicks and 3 1/2 sacks of feeds good for 25-days by which time the chicks are ready to be sold in the markets.
DA has also dispersal programs on native chickens, cows, goats and buffaloes, and on fisheries.
"We will monitor you and check on your progress. If we see that you reciprocate the initiatives of DA, we will give you more assistance," he said.