Start a Feed Distribution Business with Vitarich

If you have time, space, location and location, and if you know that there is a high demand for feeds in your area, then maybe this business is for you.

What is it?

Vitarich develops and manufactures high quality animal and aqua feeds. We have a wide range of products available at competitive prices—so competitive, in fact, that all you have to do is open your own store or feeds outlet and you’re all set to go.

What can we do for you?

Vitarich gives you two ways to make profits.

- We’ll provide you with all the feeds you can sell at dealers’ discounted rates and you can determine your profits based on the recommended retail price for your area.
- When you hit a certain volume of bag sales, we’ll give you additional rebates.

What value-added services do we offer?

- If you hit a higher volume, we could help you with our Service Account Officer program where you would have a salesperson in your area assisting you in building your business.
- We also provide your clients with technical support free of charge:

*after sales technical visits including consultations;
*seminars on farm management and other relevant livestock raising issues; and
*free training for farm personnel.

How to start?

Just get in touch with us and we’ll set up a meeting for you with the marketing person in charge of your area.

VITARICH CORPORATION
MacArthur Highway, Abangan Sur,
Marilao, Bulacan 3019 Philippines

Trunklines connecting all departments

PLDT : (632) 843-3033
Digitel: (6344) 711-2829
Smart : (63918) 8482-254
Fax : (632) 843-3033 local 400

Feed Sales & Marketing

Locals : 119 / 120 / 121 / 127 / 131 / 176
Direct Lines : (6344) 711-VITA (8482) or 711-1519

Livestocks & Poultry Operations

Contract Growing
Locals : 309 / 307
Direct Line : (63917) 831-7206

Food Sales
Local : 212
Direct Line : (63917) 505-3246

Technical Support & Hog Sales
Locals : 309 / 307
Direct Line : (63917) 516-9204


METRO MANILA OFFICE

WEB-JET Acropolis Building
Unit 302, 3rd Floor
#88 E Rodriguez Jr. Ave.
Bagumbayan, Libis, Quezon City
Tel no. (632) 636-3013
Fax no. (632) 633-8192


OUTSIDE WAREHOUSES

Guagua Warehouse
Bo. Natividad, Guagua, Pampanga
Contact Person : Mr. Gerardo Domingo
Mobile# : (63917) 873-5841

Lipa Warehouse
Brgy. Tambo, Lipa City, Batangas
Contact Person : Mr. Martin Tagle
Mobile# : (63917) 516-8502
Telefax : (6343) 757-0880


VISMIN OPERATIONS

Visayas

Ilo-Ilo
Brgy. Maliao, Pavia, Ilo-Ilo
Direct Lines : (6333) 329-7658 or 320-6753

Bacolod
CL Montelibano, Cor. Kamunsil St.,
Bacolod City
Direct Line : (6334) 434-8166

Cebu
Juez M.O. Echavez St., Sudlon,
Maguikay, Mandaue City
Direct Lines : (6332) 345-3511 to 12

Mindanao
Davao
Km. 14, Panacan, Davao City
Direct Lines : (6382) 238-0330 to 32

General Santos
Biocrest Feedmill, National Hi-Way,
Apopong, General Santos City
Direct Lines : (6383) 552-6031 or 553-5467

Cagayan de Oro
Bo. Umalag, Tablon,
Cagayan de Oro City
Direct Lines : (6388) 855-2868 to 70

How to raise healthy cacao seedlings

by Maria Rowena Briones

Raising cacao in nurseries is one way of raising healthy planting materials. Not only will cacao become pest-free, it will grow robustly. Like maintenance of a healthy body through proper diet and exercise, maintenance of cacao under nursery is through proper site and seed selection (stock and scion), and planting techniques.

cacao seedlingsThe site of the nursery must be situated in an area near the source of water, with an excellent drainage system. A more ideal site is in a shaded area because cacao grows well in shades especially during its first two months. In the absence of coconut frond, black plastic nets attached on two-meter bamboo poles will do. Fortunately, cacao needs less and less shade as it grows prior to planting. Healthy plants grow from healthy seeds. Thus, only healthy and big seed varieties-the UIT1, UIT2, ICS 20 and UF42, of cacao are grown in nurseries. Unhealthy seedlings are removed as soon as detected.

As soon as cacao seeds mature or removed from the pods, it starts to germinate within one week. Thus, it should immediately be planted into the prepared polybags with sieved fertile topsoil. Some organic fertilizer is mixed in the medium to insure sound root and stem development of seedlings. If pH of the soil is low, ground magnesium limestone can be added to improve the pH to 5-6 level.

The size of the polybags depend on the length of time cacao will be kept in the nurseries-- the longer the time, the larger are the polybags. For instance, for seedlings kept from five to six months, a polybag measuring 12.5 cm x 15 cm with .003 thickness is an ideal size.

Systematic arrangement of the polybags inside the nursery leads to a more efficient maintenance and grafting of cacao plants as they mature. The arrangement can be in four rows with 50 cm spacing between each rows. After two months, seedlings should be lifted manually to avoid root penetration to the nursery soil. Aside from proper spacing, there should be constant weeding to prevent the weeds from competing with the growing seedlings in the absorption of soil nutrients. While it is tedious, weeding should be done manually because the use of herbicides is not advisable. However, occasional application of fertilizer, such as urea (46-0-0), is encouraged to achieve speedy growth.

Only seedlings with hardened leaves are planted out to the field. Field planting is ideal at the start of the rainy season, not during dry season unless irrigation is available in the field. The transplanting of the cacao seedlings from nursery to the field is a good start. Since the seedlings are healthy, with correct and constant care of the crop, the harvest is as healthy.

Source: Maintenance of Cacao under Nursery. Cacao RDE Sub-network. University of Southern Mindanao

(For more information, contact Cacao RDE Sub-network University of Southern Mindanao Kabacan North Cotabato Tel. No. (062) 248 2323)