Dumaguete officials  are planning to acquire a complete dressing plant facility worth P30 million for the city slaughterhouse through a grant from a funding agency, or through a firm, for a possible build-operate-transfer scheme.

Chief Jose Ronnie Fortin of the Market Enterprise said, all documents needed are being processed as  part of  the  grant requirements.

 Nothing is fixed yet, though, until a memorandum of agreement will be  signed   by  Mayor  Agustin Perdices, Fortin said. 

Earlier, Perdices ordered Fortin to make a  feasibility study and design for  a dressing plant  that  will  still be  constructed   beside  the  city slaughterhouse.

The  dressing  plant  is  used  for slaughtering domestic fowl like  chickens  or  turkeys.  In  Dumaguete,  chickens  are  the  most   common  poultry  product  sold in  the  market.

Perdices  said the city does  not have  enough  funds  for  the P30 million dressing  plant.

At  present  some  of  the  poultry  products  are   from  backyard  raisers, but do  not pass  through meat inspections.

It is  important  to examine poultry  products especially  from backyard  raisers,   because  they might be contaminated  with diseases, Fortin added.*MA

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