With the rising cost of commercial feeds for livestock, local livestock raisers resort to using alternative feeds as an alternative source for commercial feeds. Aside from being economic, it is also sustainable such that alternative feed ingredients could be produced closer to home and could benefit local producers. In this connection, the ATI-Cordillera conducted a Training on Feed Formulation for Farmer Organizations of CAR held on October 17-19, 2023 at the Dam-muh-han Hall, ATI-RTC-CAR, BSU Compd., La Trinidad, Benguet.
The training aimed to equip the participants with concepts, basic principles, and practices on alternative methods of feedstuff propagation, feed production, and processing.
To better engage the participants, they were exposed to benchmarking activities at the different learning sites practicing alternative feedstuffs such as the Benguet Animal Learning Site under the Benguet Provincial Veterinary Office located at San Pascual, Tuba, Benguet; the ANAEM Farm at Taloy Sur, Tuba, Benguet; and at the Miner’s Garden at Minac, Tuding, Itogon, Benguet. All farms are Learning Sites for Agriculture (LSA) certified by the ATI-RTC-CAR. At ANAEM Farms, Mr. Geraldo A. Meana, the farm owner, showed how to process feedstuffs into pellets while Mr. Romeo D. Casilia, owner of the Miners Garden taught the participants how to make probiotics-inocula.
Dr. Mary Arnel D. Garcia, Associate Professor II of the Benguet State University discussed and prepared the farmer participants on the Nutrition and Feed Formulation on Swine with Hands-on activity at the Department of Animal Science-College of Agriculture, Benguet State University.
A total of twenty farmer participants successfully completed the said training course.
