Learning Site (LS) owner Mr. Roger R. Lacida of Venida Farm (center) as one of the chicken dispersal recipients is being flanked by (L-R) Info Chief Noemi Beth Lasmarias-Gomez Macario, CDMS Chief Teodosia D. Jaraba, OIC-Center Director Maria Lydia Adviento Echavez and Livestock Focal Person Aleli Jean A. Paulican.
ATI-RTC X, EL SALVADOR CITY---As part of its post-training support to the Back to Basics – Scientific and Sustainable Livestock and Poultry Production advocacy campaign mounted last March 16 this year, a total of 3,192 heads of Plymouth Rock and Black Australorp (US and Australian chicken breeds respectively) were dispersed to the four provinces in Lanao del Norte, Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental and Bukidnon with identified Learning Site (LS) partners and farmers as recipients. The post-training support intends to further strengthen the promotion of government programs on the production of healthy food and to intensify the production of free range chicken and Itik Pinas in the region.
The Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center X (ATI-RTC X) through the National Livestock Program in partnership with the Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office X (DA-RFO X) came up with the advocacy campaign to further strengthen the promotion of government programs on the production of healthy food.
Raising free-range chicken and ducks are now becoming popular due to government programs that promote production of more meat and eggs that are safe and healthy. It is a production system wherein the birds are raised in a stress-free environment, allowing constant access outdoors to have a natural diet of grains, forages, and insects with plenty of fresh air and sunlight. Also, in this system the use of antibiotics are minimized, if not eliminated.
The post-training support via mass chicken dispersal transpired last June 8, 2018 at the ATI-RTC X compound.