DV Boer, Aussie firm tie up for dairy farm

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines remains a large importer of dairy products as domestic production can not meet the nation’s dairy requirement.

It produces less than one percent of its annual dairy requirement of 1.99 million metric tons. The country imports most of its dairy requirements from New Zealand, which supplies 30 percent of the requirement. Australia and the US  are also major sources, supplying seven percent and 24 percent, respectively.

Given this scenario, DV Boer Farm has entered into a partnership with Dairy Livestock Exports Pty Ltd., a prominent dairy animal supplier in Australia to address the growing demand for milk and other dairy products.

DV Boer shall acquire from Dairy Livestock a significant number of cattle and goats which which will be taken cared of at a newly acquired 27-hectare land in Alfonso, Cavite. The dairy farm is projected to become the biggest in the country.

The cattle and goats will undergo continuous breeding simultaneous with standard dairy production processes to meet the country’s dairy product requirements. 

The modern challenges in Philippine agriculture call for communal efforts to realize a truly progressive agricultural development.

The 11-hectare DV Boer Farm,  located in Balibago, Lian, Batangas,  provides livestock raising services including the sharing of imported and superior livestock genetics (of goats and cattle). 

 Such massive crossbreeding process will eventually lead to large scale hybrid livestock raising. 

With the growing number of nationwide sub-farms replicating the process, the livestock population is seen to  explode. Hence, the farming services extended to accommodate the raising of other people’s livestock has made the DV Boer farm “The People’s Farm.”

Dexter A.  Villamin, president of DV Boer Farm,  now expects the agriculture sector to have a better future with the People’s Farm program.

 He cited an urgent need to address the fast growing demands of 100 million Filipinos for supply of milk and other dairy products. 

Among DV Boer Farm’s goals are to ensure the use of modern information technology and enhance farm process effectiveness and efficiency, and acquire breeders with superior genetic traits and have them accessible to goat farmers.