Section 6Sec./Art. 6

Priorities.- The PCC shall give priority to the following activities:

a. Increase in carabao population and productivity;

b. Development of feeding systems for backyard and semi-commercial production, improving reproductive efficiency, physiology and schemes to reduce losses caused by parasites and diseases;

c. Reproduction, breeding, nutrition and animal health;

d. Socioeconomic researches to ensure economic viability and acceptance of technology by farmers; and

e. Development of appropriate technologies that are cost-effective, simple and practical.

At least thirty (30) to fifty (50) percent of the carabaos maintained/propagated by each carabao center shall be of the pure native/indigenous stock to ensure the preservation of the Philippine carabao and provide option to the farmers.