SAN FRANCISCO, Southern Leyte, Sept. 8 (PIA) -- Four women’s association in this town recently received material support for a duck-raising project which they hope to make good and develop into a viable business selling balut, or salted duck eggs, and breeding ducks.
The Habay Women’s Association got 330 ducks, 300 females and 30 males, from the Department of Agriculture’s special area for agricultural development (SAAD) about two months past, and to date they have started harvesting eggs.
Along with three other women’s associations in barangays Dakit, Tinaan, and Bongbong, the combined total for the duck-raising project in this town amounted to P 4.1 Million, said Jocelyn Cabanas, provincial SAAD coordinator.
An incubator for hatching the ducks’ eggs was already given to another group last year, at barangay Gabigabi, and this can be used by the four women’s groups for their hatching needs, Cabanas told members of local media in a recent site visit.
Aside from raising ducks, the associations are also into vegetable production, the “pinakbet” type of vegetables, Cabanas said.
Meanwhile, SAAD has also assisted four farmers association in barangays of the municipalities of Tomas Oppus, Libagon, Malitbog, and this town that were into native chicken production since last year.
Cabanas said these projects have been ongoing since SAAD in 2019 poured P 262,000 including the incubator that cost P 60,000 as starting material support for each of the farmers association tending native chickens. (mmp/PIA8-Southern Leyte)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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