Section 10Sec./Art. 10

Management and Acquisition of Dairy Programs, Projects, and Assets. - All remaining government dairy programs, projects, and assets operating outside of the NDA, except the research and development component of the PCC, shall be absorbed by the NDA. Towards this end, the NDA, in coordination with affected agencies, shall conduct an inventory and survey of all assets it occupies and those assets, lots, funds, grants, subsidies and records of the DA related to dairying, and establish an office for transfer in its name, including the lot occupied by its central offices in the BAI compound, Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, measuring at least one thousand (1,000) square meters.

Subject to the submission by the NDA of a development plan to be approved by the BAI Administrator, focusing on production, post-harvest, processing, marketing, and other commercial arrangements within the dairy value chain and support services, the NDA may also develop properties of the DA such as the Dumarao Stock Farm in Dumarao, Capiz; Bureau of Animal Industry National Beef Cattle Research and Development Center (BAI-NBCRDC) in Malaybalay, Bukidnon; Davao Regional Upland Agriculture Research Station in Marilog District, Davao City; DA-RFO2 - Quirino Experiment Station in Quirino Province; and other suitable properties under the management and administration of the DA.