GOAT RAISING IN THE PHILIPPINES

All about Goat Raising in the Philippines. Do you want some goats? Well for a start you can contact a known breeder directly. However you can often find goats from smaller breeders and this FREE Goats Wanted advertising is the easiest way to advertise your goat requirements

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Based on inventory figures from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, the total Philippine goat population in 2019 was 3.8 million head.  The locations of Central Visayas, Western Visayas and the Ilocos region were the main areas. The statistics show 38% were breeder does and 9% were breeder bucks

GOAT RAISING IN THE PHILIPPINES

Filipinos do not raise goats on any large scale, with the goat population at around 2 million. They are widely distributed throughout the country, with heaviest concentrations in central and western Visayas, central Luzon, Ilocos, and the southern Tagalog provinces. 99% of goats are raised by small-scale farmers. This is changing! As the goats are now in large demand, the center has integrated this into their SALT system. The goal is now to make the small upland farmer production sufficient an a very limited land area of only 3/4 hectare (2 acres) and the improved system is a goat-based agroforestry system with a land utilization of 40 percent for agriculture, 40 percent for goats and 20% for forestry. They still use hedgerows of different nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs are established on the contour lines.

GOAT RAISING PHILIPPINES

A typical setup is that a goat barn is erected at the farm center, with the upper half planted to ¾ permanent crops such as coffee, cacao and black pepper, with ¼ of short-term crops such as beans, peanut and corn. The remaining 50% of farm is used for forage crops as feeds for goats. The goat manure is used as fertilizer both for the agricultural crops and the forage crops. They get goat sales, goat meat, goat milk so a very smart and sustainable farming system.  What also is a great feed advantage is the ready source of very high protein feed supplements such as copra meal and so on.  

All about Philippines Goat Farming and all you need to know, buy or sell goats and all about  Goat Raising in the Philippines.

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