Caraga Black Native Chicken

The R&D project generally aspires to establish a sustainable breeding-true to-type Caraga black native chicken with at least 80% uniformity in meat and skin color.

Specifically, the project aims to:

- Establish morphological and phenotypic characteristics of Caraga black native chicken, egg production, egg quality, percent hatchability, and percent fertility.

- Establish breeding, selection, and hatchery management technologies suited to the Caraga black native chicken and to the most common farming systems in Caraga Region;

- Establish 250 head flock size in each station of breeding-true-to type foundation native chicken breeder stocks of Caraga black native chicken with at least 80% uniformity in meat and skin color, improved and predictable performance, and product quality. Transfer initial 1,000 heads of quality breeder stock

Project Title: DEVELOPMENT OF CARAGA BLACK NATIVE CHICKEN THROUGH BREEDING AND SELECTION AS POTENTIAL NICHE PRODUCT OF CARAGA REGION

Researchers: Escolastico S. Cagatin, DVM, Shernelyn S. Palma, Tomas Austral, Ph.D

Economic Studies on Rubber-based Cropping System in Southern Philippines

The economic component of the ACIAR soil and land management (SLaM) 2017/040 that is a research collaboration of the University of Southern Mindanao, Caraga State University, Provincial Government of Agusan del Sur, and the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Soils and Water Management is in coordination with Griffith University. The said component for the Philippines is entitled The Economic Studies on Rubber-based Cropping System in Southern Philippines, which is spearheaded in implementation by Dr. Raquel M. Balanay of Caraga State University with Dr. Rodel Maglunsod of the Provincial Government of Agusan del Sur.

The objective of this study is to develop an effective, market-oriented rubber-based cropping system for the uplands of Agusan del Sur. This for the investigation of the rubber-based cropping systems and the markets served by the rubber product from Agusan del Sur, Cotabato and Southern Philippines. This entails the investigation of the rubber-based cropping systems. The project was started on June 1, 2019 and will end May 31, 2024.