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Volunteering to Promote Artificial Insemination

Few young men would volunteer to help in a national program, especially when there’s only a little support from the program implementers.

Despite the limited support, 32-year-old Cornelio Agustin of Brgy. Kinalangoyan, Talavera, Nueva Ecija, has become one of the few artificial insemination (Al) volunteers in the country who have made a significant contribution to the promotion of AI among our farmers.

He was one of the million Filipinos who were forced to drop out of school due to financial constraints. He was only a second year civil engineering student of a small college in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija when he had no choice but to go back to the farm.

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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 under Livestock, Technology. Tags: , , . Comments: None

AI Brings More Profit to Central Visayas Farmers

The Central Visayas Region has the most number of livestock produced through Artificial Insemination(AI), the technology on depositing sperm usually of purebred or genetically upgraded male animal into the reproductive organ of the female animal.

According to the Bureau of Animal Industry, about 42 percent of the 15,687 AI offspring in the country during the 2006-2007 period were produced in the region. Common breeds used in the Al program were Simbra, Holstein, Brahman and Sahiwal for cattle, and Murrah and Bulgarian for carabao.

However, promoting the Al technology in the region had been not easy, said Rudito Mumar, regional Al coordinator. Most of the raisers initially feared that their female native animals might have difficulty delivering a big fetus. But this belief is unfounded because unborn animal adjusts to the size of the womb, just like what happens in humans.
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 under Technology. Tags: . Comments: None

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