CABANATUAN CITY – The technology being used in China in mass producing carabao milk was acquired from the Philipppines, particularly in Nueva Ecija , ranking officials revealed on Tuesday.
Thus Dr. Libertado Cruz, executive director of the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) based in Science City of Munoz said the country can produce cattle milk as much as the China does if only the money being spent in importation be used to help local farmers.
Cruz placed at $450-million the estimated expenses in milk importation per year. That is roughly equivalent to P25 billion a year, he stressed.
Cruz said Chinse officials have surprised his team once in a visit.
“Akala namin ay may seminar kaming dadaluhan,” he said. But to their surprised, they were toured in several villages where milk production technologies from Nueva Ecija were being applied.
“Mas agresibo nga lang,” said Cruz, adding the Chinese government has intensified the use of Philippine-earned technologi
Cruz disclosed the demand for carabao milk surged in the last few weeks. The supply, however, was not enough to satisfy need of the market that includes producers of pastries and other milk-based products.
The PCC, he said, is looking for milk popwedering machines so that losses of milk during periods of high production can be prevented and preserved for periods of high demand.
This is to answer the problem where the peak of carabao milk supply happens when the deman is in its lowest while the demand surges when the production decreaseses. "our technology is applied only in great magnitute," Cruz said. -30-
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