Priorities.
Section 6
SEC. 6. Priorities. - The PCC shall give priority to the following activities: Increase in carabao population and productivity; Development of feeding systems for backyard and semi-commercial production, improving reproductive efficiency, physiology and schemes to reduce losses caused by parasites and diseases; Reproduction, breeding, nutrition and animal health; Socioeconomic researches to ensure economic viability and acceptance of technology by farmers; and 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.