Milk is a staple food in many cultures. A newborn baby needs milk for sustenance, a kid needs milk for nutrition, a glass of milk helps one sleep soundly, and milk can be used to create delicious food, like desserts.
Each imported cow from Australia roughly costs P150,000. Razo was fortunate to benefit from the National Dairy Authority’s program where they helped fund the purchase through a loan he could pay back in the next five years.As a dairy farmer, his day starts as early as four in the morning where he prepares the food for the cows. The cows eat twice a day, consuming napier grass and corn grown on the farm.
Almost all of the milk his farm produces goes to DepEd, though some people go to his farm to buy bottles of milk. For the walk-ins, he charges P65 pesos per liter, a relatively low price. The farm gained accreditation from the Technical Education And Skills Development Authority to be a learning site for dairy farming in 2020, and has been eagerly receiving students since then.’
So far, the farm has trained almost 600 students and almost all of the students who train at Dairysquare Farm go on to work overseas as dairy farmers. The farm has produced a lot of well-trained farmers that Dairysquare Farm is already well-known in New Zealand. Some students are also branching out to other countries, such as Canada.Aside from teaching his students, Razo also speaks at government-arranged seminars to talk about dairy farming.