Cassava based feed in the Philippines: The VISCA experience
1992
Gerona, G.R.
This paper presents an overview of the utilization of cassava by the livestock industry in the Philippines with emphasis on the experience in the piloting of a feed mill with cassava based formulation. Despite the industry's high dependence on imported yellow corn as energy source, interest in the pilot project came about in the late 1983 when the scarcity of foreign exchange, brought about by the devaluation of the peso, made importation of yellow corn more difficult and expensive. The pilot feed mill project demonstrated, technically and commercially, the use of cassava to completely replace corn in the various diets of hogs but only to a limited level in the diets of poultry. With cassava chips priced at 60-80 of the price of corn the cassava based feed was cheaper than the corn-based formulation despite the increase in the use of protein rich ingredients to overcome the inherently low protein content in cassava. The experience also manifested the importance role of a small, village-level feed mills in encouraging the establishment of backyard pig and poultry projects and in improving the farmgate price of cassava chips. It also demonstrated the constraints encountered when operating a commercial or business-like project following restrictive government auditing rules in the procurement of supplies.
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