(Photo grab from video of Toto Frades, Braveheart Farms)
Today, two top officers of an Indigenous People’s Cooperative in Malaybalay, Bukidnon have signified their intent to join the newly-formed Philippine Wagyu Association.
Lawyer Burt Estrada, Chairman of the BUKTAMACO, a Tagoloanon Tribe Cooperative, and John Rey del Rosario, the operations manager, visited our Wagyu Feedlot in the Great Arch Farm today.
They traveled 14 hours back and forth to see for themselves our operations, especially Silage making.
Burt is the first IP lawyer to be elected President of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.
He has focused on helping members of the Indigenous People’s Communities leading BUKTAMACO in establishing a 1,500-hectare Giant Bamboo plantation with support from the defunct USAID.
The Cooperative also received 25 heads of Dairy Buffalo from the Philippine Carabao Center.
He said the Wagyu Program is ideal for his tribe because they have thousands of hectares of Ancestral Land which could be planted to Sorghum for Silage Production.
“Our people traditionally are livestock raisers and the Dairy Buffalo and hopefully Wagyu will lift our people from poverty,” Atty. Estrada said.
