service is supervised by SIDC’s qualified technicians in a cost-efficient manner. Contract growing. Locally known as the paiwi system, SIDC provides livelihood to its members by giving them the opportunity to raise hogs and cattle. The coop provides members with fatteners and stocks, feeds, veterinary services up to marketing of their products. All related-expenses are borne by the coop, and SIDC and the memberraiser share in the profits equally. As a coop member, the raiser also gets a patronage refund. Pig farm. SIDC has a multi-million piglet multiplier farm facility in Taysan, Batangas that houses 500 high-grade sows and boars and provides good quality piglets. Communal farm. SIDC has a communal farm facility for contract growing under a communal setup with a capacity of 1,130 heads hog fatteners. Members are provided with hog pens, stocks, feeds and veterinary products and services. Hog-selling pen. SIDC constructed a hog-selling pen to ensure a market for members who raise fatteners under contract growing. The hog-selling pen is equipped with an electronic weighing scale to speed up sale of the hogs. Due attention is given to prevent the spread of diseases. The coop charges a fee for its hog-selling pen service. Feed mill. Since 1987, SIDC has its own feed mill that produces one major input for hog production – feeds – at an average of 9,000 bags per day. The ISO-certified feed mill plant uses state-of-the-art machineries for the production of mash, pellet and crumble feeds for swine, poultry, broilers and ruminants. SIDC’s support services for farmers. SIDC has a rice mill located in Mindoro Oriental with a capacity of 220 sacks of rice a day. The coop also produces Koop Likas organic fertilizer from hog manure and chicken dung. SIDC has a savings and loan service that provides high interest rates, and where members can receive additional capital through ECL Hog Fattening and ECL Breeding in the form of feeds. SIDC has 6 consumer stores (Coop Marts) and a Supermarket that offer basic household items and agricultural inputs. The coop has a gasoline station that provides gasoline services, auto supply and other services to members.
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