{"id":177689,"date":"2018-08-20T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=177689"},"modified":"2018-08-20T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T06:45:07","slug":"negros-occidental-distributes-10500-farm-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/20\/negros-occidental-distributes-10500-farm-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Negros Occidental distributes more than 10,500 farm animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177690\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/negocc-swine-dispersal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177690\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/negocc-swine-dispersal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/negocc-swine-dispersal.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/negocc-swine-dispersal-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recipients of the Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office swine dispersal in April this year. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BACOLOD CITY<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A total of 10,533 heads of livestock and poultry animals have been distributed to various recipients by the Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) from January to July this year.<\/p>\n<p>The farm animals, worth PHP3.8 million, were released through the Negros First Provincial Animal Dispersal Program &#8212; a component of the Negros First Animal Livelihood Program which aims to augment the livelihood of farmer-raisers in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Joselito Jaballa, PVO Livestock Services Division officer-in-charge, said the province\u2019s animal dispersal and re-dispersal initiatives have contributed positively to the growth of the local livestock and poultry industry.<\/p>\n<p>The program has enabled farmers to improve their livelihood while contributing to the overall production output of the province, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In the first seven months of 2018, the PVO has dispersed 1,160 heads of swine worth PHP2.9 million; 8,486 free-range chicken totaling PHP635,000; 810 ducks amounting to PHP85,000; and 95 goat worth PHP250,000.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients were 1,255 families, 80 non-government organizations and farmers associations, and 14 local government units.<\/p>\n<p>Jaballa said for the rest of the year, they aim to dispersed 2,000 heads of swine as well as about 15,000 free-range chickens.<\/p>\n<p>The PVO will also distribute another 1,500 ducks and 250 goats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACOLOD CITY\u00a0&#8212; A total of 10,533 heads of livestock and poultry animals have been distributed to various recipients by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":177690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-erwin-nicavera","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}