Thursday, July 7, 2011

AS 130animal production (introduction)

                                     Introduction

In March 21, 1979, this affirmed the long felt need to develop the Philippine Dairy Industry and put into action with the Dairy Industry Development Act of 1979. There were 3 objectives to the said law; the law provides for measures to increase local milk production, reduce dependence on imports and develop an indigenous dairy industry.

Dairy production is closely related in nutrition. Milk is a nutritious food and a survey shows that the Philippines have a serious malnutrition problems. Many children suffer from varying degrees of malnutrition and milk has an important bearing on this problem. The truth in the Philippine situation is, the lower the income, the lesser is the milk consumption.

In the mid 80’s, the Philippine Dairy Corporation a GOCC is mandated to take the lead in developing the dairy industry in the country. It started by importing dairy cattle from New Zealand and started a dispersal program in coordination with the Department of Agriculture. The dairy training and Research Institute of the University of the Philippines, Los Baños, was also mandated to develop and provide the necessary technology to make the dairy development program a success.

In 1994, the National Dairy Authority (NDA) assumes the role of the PDC in the development of the industry. The importation continued annually. Total importations in term of live animlas reaches 5,000 pregnant heifers more or less, all Holstein-Sahiwal from New Zealand, especially breed for the Philippines.

With the help of the Organized Dairy Cooperatives all over the country, NDA established Six Medium Size Processing Plants with 10, 000 liters capacity per day and awarded these plants in a 25 years rent to own scheme.

The Dairy Industry in the Philippines is a 25 billion Industry in the country today. Latest statistics show that the Philippines is importing 99% of our total dairy products requirement annually at an estimated import cost of about 450-500 million US Dollar. Our local dairy farmers nationwide are only capable of producing 1% of our total milk and milk products requirement.

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