Category: Research and Development

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Naudlot na biyaya dahil sa sakit ng kalabaw

Puno ng pangarap si Dany M. Rafael, 61, ng barangay Catalanacan, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, nang malaman niyang buntis ang kanyang kalabaw. Agad niyang naisip ang tuluy-tuloy na kita mula sa gatas na ibibigay nito araw-araw matapos manganak. Kung lalaki ang bulo, may kita rin ‘pag ibinenta. Kung babae naman, dagdag ito sa pagpapalago ng kanyang palahiang kalabaw.

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Newly-formulated Karabun can last for 7-8 days

As of 2024, the Philippines continues to grow its population to 115 million people, where 31.71 million are schoolchildren aged 5-17, meaning we would need more food to sustain everyone. Programs like the SchoolBased Feeding Program of the Department of Education (DepEd) aims to address undernutrition, and it requires a sustainable approach to food production that can extend the shelf-life of the food it serves, including the Karabun.

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Determining the genetic diversity of PH carabao thru microsatellite markers

The Gene Pool for Philippine carabao (Bubalus bubalis) swamp buffalo for conservation and management is at PCC at Cagayan State University (PCC at CSU). With its current efforts to preserve the live population of swamp buffaloes with superior genetics, the question is whether the conservation at PCC at CSU is enough to represent the Philippine carabao’s genetics in the country. Is there a genetic diversity of this indigenous animal? How would we know if the answer is “YES” or “NO”? First, a conclusive molecularbased approach to Philippine carabao genetic diversity using informative genetic markers is necessary.

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Benchmarking for Efficiency

Measuring the productivity of dairy buffalo farms helps in determining which are performing less efficiently than the others in the same geographical location. This is important to develop benchmarking strategies to improve the performance of inefficient dairy buffalo farms.