Laoac LGU takes over bankrupt dairy farm

By March 5, 2018Headlines, News

LAOAC –The maintenance and operation of the Laoac Dairy Farm in Barangay Maraboc has since been transferred to the local government of Laoac after the 2016 elections.

This was learned from Mayor Silverio Alarcio Jr. who said he talked about the takeover of the farm with former Fifth District Congressman Mark Cojuangco since the cooperative appointed to manage already abandoned the bankrupt dairy farm, and Cojuangco agreed.

The mayor recalled that the dairy farm ceased operation when only a few of the hundreds of cows were left as sources of milk for processing.

It was Cojuangco and his wife Kimi, then the representative of the Fifth District, who initiated the project using their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).

“We are capable of running the farm using our own resources,” Alarcio said.

The farm was funded initially by the PDAF and the congressional share from the excise tax on burley and native tobacco which were all downloaded to LGU Laoac.

“The dairy farm is technically ours,” the mayor said.

Alarcio said he subsequently discussed the matter with the National Dairy Authority (NDA), which assumed temporary control of the farm after it was abandoned.

NDA agreed to transfer the remaining 20 cows and promised to provide nine more cows from its cattle farm in Lingayen.

Alarcio said the farm is still not producing dairy but expressed confidence that it will soon become sustainable as more cows are added by NDA to those bought by the LGU.

Meanwhile, he said 1.7 hectare of the farm’s eight hectares are now the subject of litigation after some persons are claiming ownership. (Leonardo Micua)

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