Capiz to Push Native Chicken Raising

Native chicken production will be introduced by the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) this year as a provincial government initiative designed particularly to provide livelihood opportunity to identified island and hinterland residents.

This was disclosed by Gov. Antonio A. Del Rosario in a Jan. 9 meeting of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC), noting that the livelihood project in support to food security will be an alternative source of income among the farmers.

“Poultry and livestock are less prone to calamities that’s why only insignificant damages to animals were monitored,” Del Rosario noted during the PDRRMC meeting, referring to the effects of tropical depression Agaton in the province.

For his part, PVO chief Dr. Leonel Abordo said that a supplier from Panay Island is being contracted for the project that will initially supply about a thousand heads of two-month old chicks to would-be beneficiaries.

“We opted for native chicken because of its resistance to diseases and possibility of being raised organically,” he said.

The project is also aligned with the Philippine Rural Development Project which identified the province as suitable for chicken production.

It will be rolled out to about 300 farmers who will each receive a set of two young hens and a roster when the chicken will be made available by the supplier, Abordo noted. (JSC/AAL/PIA6 Capiz)