Eight local government units in Negros Occidental are maintaining swine and goat breeding centers to serve as sources of stocks for livestock dispersal projects in their localities. The breeding centers are situated in the cities of Cadiz, Sagay, Kabankalan, La Carlota, and Escalante, and towns of Pontevedra, Calatrava and Toboso.

The provincial government, through the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian, provides LGUs planning to establish breeding centers with hybrid stocks that it buys from nucleus farms in Bago City, Isabela and Valladolid. The breeder nucleus farm in Valladolid was registered and opened last year with a sow level of 200 heads from Australia.

The LGUs then maintain the stocks provided by the provincial government and these become the source for artificial insemination projects and make available genetically improved stocks to backyard raisers.

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION CENTERS

Under its Animal Genetic Improvement Program, the Negros Occidental provincial government also has an artificial insemination project for swine and other large animals.

There are now 26 AI centers for swine in the province established and managed either by the LGU or by a para veterinarian.

As of end-December 2006, 2,940 heads of sow were inseminated and these have produced 23,520 piglets.

Meanwhile, 13 AI centers for large animals were established.*NLG

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