Participants and organizers at the UP Training Center in Marilog, Davao City

The UP Mindanao Land Reservation Management Office delivered the Training on Free-Range Chicken Production at the UP Training Center in Marilog, Davao City. Fifty-seven (57) participants, mostly members of the Obu Manuvu and Matigsalug tribes, attended the training. The participants came from Barangays Marilog, Magsaysay, and Salumay, Davao City, and the adjacent Barangay Datu Ladayon, Arakan, in Cotabato Province.

Dr. Antonio R. Obsioma, former UP Mindanao vice chancellor and animal husbandry expert, served as the Resource Person. 

After the training, 11 participants from Datu Salumay received 22 heads of chickens and kilos of feed as starter kits for their chicken production in their respective areas. Other participants will receive their starter kits in the next few weeks.

This training, organized by LRMO chief Joel Sagadal in collaboration with the local barangays and the Obu Manuvu tribe, is an offering for the celebration of UP Mindanao's 29th founding anniversary. 

UP Mindanao's role in the Marilog Land Reservation is defined in Presidential Proclamation 1253, signed by President Fidel V. Ramos on June 15, 1998, "for research, extension, instruction purposes, watershed and forest rehabilitation and protection, biodiversity (flora and fauna) conservation, crops and livestock production, and management, including upland communities training and development center of the University of the Philippines."

The training and starter kits address the Sustainable Development Goals relating to No Poverty, Zero Hunger, and other SDGs.