Mindanao’s hog and poultry farms, badly battered by the African Swine Fever and COVID 19 lockdowns, are expected to bounce back in two years as huge breeder farms to supply quality piglets and broiler chicks are being established in key areas of the region.
Leading the daring charge to boost the production of the two major food commodities is Thailand’s biggest agro-industrial conglomerate, Charoen Phokpand Foods Phils. which has partnered with Mindanao agri-based companies.
CP Foods Phils aims to establish 10 hog and poultry breeding facilities in major corn production areas of Mindanao.
CP Foods Phils. has already partnered with NutriHogs Corp. owned by General Santos City-based business couple Nathaniel and Marivet Caballero in establishing the 2,500-sow level hog breeder farm in Polomok, South Cotabato.
The Caballero couple’s General Santos Feed Mill has also been leased by CP Foods Phils. to produce hog and poultry feeds.
CP Foods Phils. has also engaged two other groups to establish breeder farms in Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental.
Another corporation owned by the Caballero family, VetFarm, will establish breeder farms to produce quality broiler chicks, also with CP Foods Phils. as its partner.
This is expected to address the shortage of quality broiler chicks now supplied mainly by Luzon-based farms.
Under the arrangement agreed by both parties, the Mindanao companies will establish the farm facilities which CP Foods Phils. will lease and operate for a long-term.
CP Foods Phils. will introduce modern technology and assist small production farms.
The availability of quality piglets and broiler chicks for Mindanao growers is expected to make them more competitive with imported pork and chicken.
The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) which linked CP Foods with Mindanao-based agricultural companies is also working on the establishment of Corn Grains Storage Silos to ensure steady supply of corn to boost the region’s hog and poultry industry.
MinDA has tapped its banking partner, the Development Bank of the Philippines, to support the Mindanao-based companies which enter into a partnership with CP Foods Phils.
DBP President Emmanuel G. Herbosa, in a presentation of the Mindanao Hog, Poultry, Halal Beef and Corn Program on Wednesday, said an initial portfolio of P5-B could be earmarked.
The projects are expected to go full blast towards the end of 2021 and the early part of 2022.
MinDA expects the projects to stabilize the supply and prices of chicken in the market towards the end of 2022 and pork by as early as 2023.
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(Illustrations and photos by the Mindanao Development Authority)
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