Perhaps, one of the great glories of married life is the opportunity to support one another and build dreams together. Manifesting this is carapreneur couple Bonifacio Alagar Sr., 51 and Flordeliza, 51, of Batangas.

Bonifacio, fondly called Ka Facio among friends, looks at tending their dairy carabaos as an instrument that draws them closer as husband and wife and as a family. He said their carabaos bring happiness to their marriage.
Flordeliza fully supports him in his dairy venture, that is why, even when tending the carabaos could be exhausting at times, he won’t mind working harder to provide for their family. He said he would just come home to his wife who he considers as his source of joy and comfort and where he finds contentment.
Ka Facio and his wife said their greatest achievement in this business would be to see their children become professionals in their respective interests.
Because of their dairy business, the couple is able to send all their four children to private schools. Their eldest, Charlene, is pursuing a degree in Accountancy, followed by Charlie in Marine Transportation, Charmaine in senior high school, and Bonifacio Jr. in grade school. These siblings look up to their parents as their “superdad” and “supermom”.
While looking after their children’s future, Ka Facio is also preparing for the time when he and Flordeliza reach retirement age. He said, he doesn’t want his children to have to worry about them when that time comes.  
He is also preparing his children to take over the business and he makes it his mission as a father to instill in them the value of farming and how this has made their family life better. 
“When they are not in school, I would ask them to join me in the barn so that they will have an appreciation of our farm operations and for them to see that this is where provision for their schooling and for our daily needs comes from,” Ka Facio said. 
Looking back at how he started with that lone carabao that was entrusted to him upon completion of his training at the DA-PCC at UPLB, Ka Facio has nothing but gratefulness to the people who introduced him to this opportunity. 
He is now earning a monthly income of PHP100,000 to PHP130,000. 
“I see dairying as a blessing. I have never experienced earning like this before in rice farming especially when the price of palay was only at PHP9.00 per kilo. No matter how hard I work, my income then was never enough for our growing family,” Ka Facio recalled. 
Aside from providing well for his own family, Ka Facio said he is also able to help provide job for his three helpers who assist him in milking, cleaning, and feeding the carabaos. He pays each one of them PHP4,000 monthly and gives them a bonus whenever he can. 
When their time is ripe, Ka Facio said in a sentimental voice that he and his wife will be by their porch, enjoying freshly brewed barako coffee while looking out for their growing herd of dairy carabaos. Providing a perfect backdrop on that scene would be their children’s diplomas hanging nicely on the wall. 
That scenario, he said, would mark a milestone in his life that will truly describe that he is, indeed, one of the faces of success in carapreneurship.

With dairying, we were able to support our children’s education in private schools. When they finally become professionals, we’ll be the happiest parents.