Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piol said the Department of Agriculture (DA) will initially introduce sorghum, a grass species which produces high protein grains both for human food and poultry and livestock feeds, in the vast tribal ancestral domains and the rain-fed rice areas.
Sorghum was identified as an ideal complementary crop to corn as raw materials for feed manufacturing.
With over two million hectares of rain-fed rice areas and almost five million hectares of tribal ancestral domains all over the country, the prospects of achieving enough supply of raw materials for livestock and poultry feeds are bright, Piol said.
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