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| Alaminos Goat Farm | |
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 Saanen goats at the Alaminos Goat Farm | |
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| Town/City | Alaminos |
| Province | Laguna |
| Country | Philippines |
| Coordinates | 14°03′46.6″N121°14′15.1″E / 14.062944°N 121.237528°E /14.062944; 121.237528 |
| Established | 2005 |
| Owner | Almeda family |
| Produces | Goat-derived dairy products (e.g.milk,cheese) |
| Status | Operational |
TheAlaminos Goat Farm (AGF) is a goatlivestockraising anddairy processing facility inAlaminos,Laguna,Philippines.
It was established in 2005 by the Valeriano "Rene" L. Almeda who managed the AGF along with his two sons. He is known for developing the Alaminos Anglo Dairy Line (AADL) and Anglo-Saanen Crosses, a breed of dairy goats which are commercially viable in the wet-dry tropicalclimate of the Philippines. Almeda produced the crosses by breeding purebred aSaanen doe imported from Australia with anAnglo-Nubian buck imported from the United States.[1]
The facility is known for pioneering the use ofIndigofera zollingeriana as goat feeds which was observed to have increased the dairy production of the AGF's herd.[2]
The usage of the shrub for dairy goat feeds later became a subject of a research by theCentral Luzon State University.[3] and thePhilippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) named the plant as a recommended greenforage for goats. Prior to this innovation, the government has dismissedIndigofera as tough and non-palatable to plants but founder Rene Almeda through his research has found out that this wasn't the case.[1]
The Alaminos Goat Farm primarily produces bottledgoat milk, with a smaller portion of the produced output made to makekesong puti (local white cheese) and ice cream. In its early years, the facility mostly served toChinese-Filipino customers inBinondo, Manila but has since expanded its market. In 2008, the AGF became the first business in the Philippines granted by the country'sFDA to sell fresh goat milk in supermarkets.[1] The business' bottled milk are marketed under the "Alaminos Milk Star" brand.[4]