Post 13 of 20: MC Agroforest Contract Ranching

     OTA Formula 4: MC Agroforest Contract Ranching: Target: Set up and operate agroforest MCs' contract  livestock raising and breeding JVs with Australian & New Zealand ranchers.  The 'formula':

    [Every 20-30 member MC consortium] supported by [Aus. & NZ Green Aid agencies] contract with [Aus. & NZ ranchers] to set up [Phil. MCs' agroforest feedlot-style ranches under forest canopies] thru [grow-out and breeding contracts] for [cattle, sheep, goats & ponies (for sale to MC resorts)] at [50% offspring-sharing terms, initial livestock supplied by ranchers for 'free', artificial insemination straws to follow)] with shipping expenses financed by [Aus/NZ Aid] to expand within decades [Phil. livestock population at million-head levels thru artificial insemination] that will enable [MC/Aus./NZ & other JV agroforest processing factories in the Philippines] to produce and export [refrigerated meat cuts, canned meats, flavored barbecues, shawarma cuts, yoghurt, milk powder, cheeses, premium leather, bags and shoes, textiles & blankets, etc.] plus [live sheep and goats for Muslim countries' Ramadan festivals] all resulting to [more jobs in millions for Phil. bottom poor] plus [endless wealth in trillions for involved Phil. masses and companies] plus [endless trillions more in tax proceeds and other income for the Phil. govt.] plus [endless sequestration or prevention of atmospheric CO2 & methane at billion-ton level versus global warming]

    Q1: Why will Aus./NZ ranchers agree to partially outsource their livestock raising activities to Phil. MCs?  A1: Most Aussie ranches (stations) are in arid lands that gravely lack water and forages & at times suffer long droughts.  To compensate, 'almost desert' stations are hundreds to thousands of hectares in area each, which compounds management activities and raises operational expenses.  In NZ, the problem is pollution of rivers due to high forage lands' chemical fertilization practices incident to range grazing.  Outsourcing such operations among Phil. MCs will profitably address all such issues because: (a) the Phils. suffers some 20 typhoons and massive floods yearly.  MC reforestation along upland (1,500 meters average mountain heights) stream and river systems interspersed with mini dams and power plants will conserve rain water to year-round levels, provide electricity & clean water to the agroforests and ranches, and prevent yearly lowland floods.  Ergo, Aus/NZ drought and feeds problems avoided at MC outsourcing scale;  (b) Phil. Agri colleges, State agri-agencies and private operators have identified and long promoted numerous high-protein, multi-mineral, tree-type and grass-type forages that lushly grow in the country.  They have developed organic fermented plant juices as disease preventives as well.  Further, agroforests' abundant mineral-rich sweet sorghum harvests (grain, leaves & stalks) can become part of the ruminants' feed formulae in unlimited volumes.  (c) Current Phil. livestock ranching operations are largely feedlot-style whereby forages are cut by employees and fed by hand or tractor to livestock in barns or sheds equipped against bad weather & rustlers.  Forage plants are fertilized with compost which unlike the NZ way do not poison stream and ground waters; (d) Phil. vets and their technicians are adept in artificial insemination, birthing procedures, diets and grow-out care of ruminants.  Aussie/NZ ranchers need to stock only a few thousand mixed livestock per agroforest feedlot (one paddock per type), then regularly send semen straws to respective MCs, thus avoiding high shipping costs for live animals. (e) MC consortia of 20 or so members contributing several million pesos each should afford sheds, fences, employees' salaries and armed security personnel.  Signaling facilities should get help when needed from auxiliary military and police camps spread out in rural areas, ensuring zero rustling activities, the decades-old scourge of local family-scale livestock raisers. (f) Aussie research institutions have discovered certain seaweed species that inhibit methane formation in quadruped guts.  Without such remedy, ruminants routinely burp out said gas to the atmosphere.  Phil. MC ranches may use local seaweed equivalents to prevent livestock methane gas (which is 25x worse than CO2 as global warming gas) from exuding into the atmosphere; (g) Agroforest ranches generating tons of crop harvest wastes and animal droppings have to set up methane biogas electricity generating plants in JV with US & EU suppliers of appropriate biogas facilities.  Said JVs should acquire priority financing from world Green Funds since they sequester methane direct from sources.  Generated power may supply agroforest processing factories & employees' villages, the excess sold to the national grid. (h) Out of billion-ton level harvests of ground & tree forages, sweet sorghum leaves & grains, cassava, seaweeds & other ingredients, MC agroforests nationwide may set up shredding & silage-making facilities to export livestock feeds to all 'cold' countries devoid of greens for their livestock raisers' feed needs.  The combined schemes' mass benefits?  Millions of jobs for bottom poor, endless trillions in wealth (salaries, benefits, profit dividends, rises in capital stock shares' market values) for involved masses & cos., and endless trillions in tax proceeds & other income for the Phil. govt.

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