Philippine Carabao Center

The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture, was created in 1992 to study and promote the carabao in the Philippines as a multi-purpose animal that can be raised for milk, meat, hide, and draft . It was sponsored as a bill by the then senator Joseph Estrada and eventually enacted as a law through Republic Act 7307 or the Philippine Carabao Act of 1992.

The PCC had some success in reproductive biotechnology in 2004 when the first test-tube buffalo was born on April 5, also the birthday of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Incidentally, the test-tube buffalo is a female and was named as "Glory" after the President.

Late in 2007, according to Filipino scientists, the Center located in Nueva Ecija initiated a study to breed the super water buffalo that could produce 4 to 18 liters of milk/day using gene-based technology. The majority of the funding came from the Department of Science and Technology. When this marker-assisted selection process is perfected it will allow the poor farmers to conserve their resources by raising only the best producers that are genetically selected soon after birth.

• PCC facade, National Headquarters and Gene Pool, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija

• Panorama

• Bulgarian Murrah (Dairy) Asian water buffalo breeds, PCC (Super carabao )

• The super carabaos at the milking and breeding station

• Panorama of the super carabaos from the view deck

• Milking from the view deck

• Panorama of the breeding and milking station

• Housing of the officers

• Staff housing

• Dairy Plant, Milka Krem Panorama

• Facade

• Roldan C. Paraguison, Dairy Plant Manager, Milka Krem, Philippine Carabao Center

• The main products of Dairy Plant, Milka Krem, Philippine Carabao Center