In this small community a number of carabao are milked each morning. The residents are members of a Co-op so they collect all the milk together and this was this morning production. Most of them don't milk in the evening, leaving that milk for the calf. The milk is strained through a cotton cloth, put in sparkling clean glass 'former gin' bottles, and offered for sale first to the local customers for about $1.50Cdn, the unsold bottles are taken to a market in the nearest town. This milk has never been cooled and could be 12 hours old before it is sold...imagine the bacteria count! Not to be cynical but this is the starting point of the dairy industry in this province.
We feel we are having an impact however to make some changes. This past Saturday we facilitated a group of about 20 to visit Batangas Province south of Manila to view the growing dairy farms in that area. If you look at some earlier picture posts you will see some of the same farms that we visited. Our participants did express a desire to see change in their home province and felt that real dairy businesses could also happen in Isabela...a dream that can come true with some aggressive, persistent, dedicated effort.
Today we visited another municipality where the mayor was very supportive, willing to contact a family of 2 doctors in the US and a lawyer in Manila whose 50 acre farm is just lying idle...an excellent opportunity to begin a dairy farm here. Yes there is hope! We just have to be patient, but aggressive and persistent in our prayers and our work. We're convinced that God is at work here with some imminent break throughs.
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