Mati City, Davao Oriental – A P250-M hog breeder facility with a 2,400-sow level will be established this year in a 16-hectare area in Barangay Don Salvador Lopez, Sr., in this city.
It will be the second mega-hog breeding center to be built in Mindanao this year supporting the initiative of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) to boost hog production in the region.
The Mati City hog breeding facility is a partnership between Thailand’s biggest multi-national agro-industrial company, Charoen Pokphand Foods Corp. Philippines, and a Mindanao group, Orcas Agrifishing Corp.
Orcas is composed of young Mindanao entrepreneurs led by Benjamin Rodriguez III along with several partners, including former basketball star Kenneth Duremdes.
The Orcas/CP Foods Swine Breeder Facility is the second major investment of CP Foods in the hog industry of Mindanao.
Eearlier, CP Foods Philippines Vice Chairman Sakol Cheewakoset led the groudbreaking rites of their first hog breeder facility in Polomolok, South Cotabato which brings them together with an established business family of Nathaniel and Marivet Caballero of Ren & Rel Fishing Corp.
They also entered into a partnership with the Caballero family-owned Gensan Feed Mills in operating a huge feed milling facility also in Polomolok.
During the ground-breaking rites on Thursday, Rodriguez, a Mati City native married to the daughter of South Cotabato businessman, Ben Tiu, said the facility will be operated by experts from CP Foods Corporation to produce fatteners.
It is expected to benefit farmers who produce corn and other feed materials in the province and provide employment to locals.
Most of all, the project is expected to boost Mindanao’s hog production as the country’s hog industry suffers from the unabated spread of the African Swne Fever.
The Mindanao Hog Industry Development Program initiated by MinDA has proposed to CP Foods the establishment of similar hog breeding facilities in at least four more corn production areas of Mindanao, including North Cotabato.
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(Photos were taken by Mayette Tudlas, MinDA OC and downloaded from the FB pages of Ednar Dayanghirang and Mati City.)
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