DAVAO CITY—A Thai company sealed an investment accord for a piggery breeder farm with the city government of Mati, capital of Davao Oriental, to offset the supply threat created by the African swine fever.
The city government has also backed up the investment venture with the construction of a poultry dressing plant to ensure adequate supply for the city of these two important livestock meat.
The Mati City information office said Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) Philippines Corp. from Thailand and Orcas Agrifishing Corp. from Mati City sealed the joint venture project in a simple signing ceremony in Mati on March 11, 2021.
The piggery farm would be put up in Barangay Don Salvador Lopez in Mati City.
The is a breeder farm and could accommodate 2,400 breeder pigs.
The joint venture plan was started last quarter of 2020.
Also on the same day, officials from the Mati City Agriculture Office and the city government, held a groundbreaking ceremony and unveiling of the planned poultry dressing plant inside the Mati City Agriculture Complex in Sitio Sudlon where the Farmers Market is also located.
The poultry dressing plant would cost P45 million and its operation would be done in partnership with the private business, Farmer’s Choice Farm.
The city’s poultry dressing plant is the first chicken dressing plant in the entire Davao region that will be managed by a local government.
All poultry products that will come out of the dressing plant will be branded “Mati’s Choice.”
The initial 20 Mati’s Choice Chicken were also turned over during the groundbreaking ceremony as samples of the upcoming product.
Meanwhile, a city councilor in the city and private citizens volunteered to help two sexagenarian fishermen earlier accosted by Maritime personnel for using an unregistered banca.
City Councilor Eric Rabat has volunteered to help defray the cost of the banca registration of 62-year-old Bernardo Tolin, a resident of Sitio Malibago, Barangay Badas and 65-year-old Ernido Opo, resident of Sitio Sikalig in Barangay Mamali. Other residents offered to help.
The City Agriculture Office said the annual registration fee of motorized bancas ranges from P930 to P980, including the P130 3-year registration for fishermen.
Rabat said however, that the help extended to the two elderly fishermen was due only to humanitarian reasons “and should not be expected to be accorded to other fishermen who purposely violate the laws.”
The two fishermen were accosted by the Maritime Group of the National Police on March 15, while fishing about 80 meters from the shoreline of Sitio Camansi, Barangay Badas.
The Maritime Group, however, clarified that the two elderly fishermen were merely advised by their personnel to have their bancas registered and that they were allowed to return home after.
The Maritime Group said it gave fuel to one of the fishermen so he could return home.
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Sir any updates on these poultry farms as of this month July 2021… Thanks