Travel Updates: Monkayo, Comval

Good thing the sun didn’t show up on our trip to Monkayo just like what we hoped for. As soon as we arrived at the farm site, I got my GPS and recorded the coordinates of the farm. The farm is owned by Hernaez Group of Companies. They were chosen as one of the Ten Outstanding Achievers of the Year in Mindanao and Gawad Saka Winner in 2007 for Fish Culture Technology. That is their primary commodity and just recently added livestock farming. After our veterinarian had a brief talk with the farm’s technical consultant, we proceeded to their livestock farm site located on the other side of the mountain.

There was a bit of delay because there are only few animals when we got there. The owner sounded like he was scolding the animal caretaker because he did not prepare the animals for the blood collection. So we waited. We finished at noon and went back to their fish farm where we had our lunch.

Our lunch was fresh hito with chicken tinola soup (not in picture). After eating, a delivery of feed supply arrived at their small office and our group decided to have another picture taken with this pinoy innovation, habal-habal. (taxi style kay naa atup!). This is a popular mode of transportation in this area.




Honestly, I will not survive in that kind of transportation.Kahoy lang man gilingkuran basi mabali pa lang na wa pa kalarga..Lisod magpa-gaan-gaan 'no.

After a couple of camera clicks, we headed back to the farm site; finishing work at nearly 3pm and drinking buko juice before leaving; we arrived in the office at 5:30pm.