We visited the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) in the Science City of Moñuz, Nueva Ecija, an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture. This center was created in 1992 to promote researches and studies about the Carabao in the Philippines sponsored as a bill by President Joseph Estrada in 1992.
The facilities were initiated for the study of the super water buffalo breding that could produce 4 to 18 liters of milk/day using gene-based technology. Philippine Carabao Center is now into massive cloning of embryos of a superior breed of Carabao following the unsuccessful transfer of the first batch of the cloned Carabao embryos early this year. The PCC’s target is to come up with the first genetically superior buffaloes using the cloning technology, but scientists said the statistically most probable, yet they least expected, happened, as the first batch of the clones experienced early embryonic death. We have seen breeds and cross-breeds Carabao.
The center has different species of the dairy type from India, Bulgaria and some countries like North and Latin America. One of the things I remembered on our trip to PCC was watching the Carabao on their milk-collection area. It was a fun experience and Carabao milk, meat, and hide were just few things we had seen there.
I invite everyone to visit the PCC to see Carabao breeding process and milking in progress. The Center is also ideal for Educational tour and Research. -Shernan
3 comments:
Hi! thank you for sharing with us your wonderful experience at the Philippine Carabao Center. Looks like you really enjoyed your visit there. are you from Nueva Ecija? I've been there once during our field trip when I was a senior B.S. Bio student at FEU-Manila but we never had an opportunity to see their indoor facilities because it was closed when we went there. we stayed overnight at the dormitory of the Philippine Rice Reasearch Institute which is located a couple of minutes away from the Philippine Carabao Center. we all had fun and learned numerous things on that trip.
You're welcome. Nice to hear your PCC experience. Yes, I enjoyed my visit there. I was lucky enough to be able to see their facilities because my cousin is working there. All the best for you. :)
I had so much fun staying at PCC and I learned a lot during my internship last April 2012.
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