BACOLOD CITY — The Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) in Negros Occidental has partnered with local poultry integrators to design initiatives to ensure biosecurity and address pollution and fly control.
Provincial Veterinarian Renante Decena said Friday that as part of the efforts, the Poultry Integrators Association was organized and elected its interim officers.
Eight poultry integrators provide support to animal production, including broiler stocks, feeds, medicine and technology in the province.
Decena said that since Negros Occidental has a chicken-eating populace, these integrators are the provincial government’s partner in ensuring food security.
The association has the capacity to produce 1.5 million to 2 million heads of broiler every month.
Decena added that eight personnel of their office are currently conducting a reevaluation of farms of all poultry integrators in the province. The integrators have 168 contract growers.
“We will further know the real picture of the broiler industry after the evaluation is done in three weeks,” he said.
Decena said the poultry producers can only renew their registration if they follow the biosecurity, pollution, and fly control techniques.
Biosecurity measures seek to protect or reduce the risk of animals against diseases.
He added that the PVO would also open the laboratory services to the integrators and involve them in outreach activities.
“Our concern is more on the production side, integrators will just compete on the marketing aspect,” Decena said.
He also said that similar to what the PVO did with the Alliance of Hog Raisers Association, they would also work to improve chicken production among big businesses and backyard scale. (Erwin Nicavera/PNA)
