Challenges and Recommended Intervention for Native Chicken Production Practices in Selected Municipalities: Volume 2, No. 1

Abstract

The native chicken meat provides a unique taste, flavor, and texture that entices consumers and food lovers. Given its extensive historical significance, preserving our native chicken breeds is crucial, particularly as they face the risk of genetic dilution due to intentional or inadvertent interbreeding with foreign varieties.

Poultry industry is one of the major contributors to Philippine agriculture, and native chicken had improved by 6.2 percent (Philippine Statistics Authority, 2023). To sustain the demand with high quality products, entrepreneurs are pushed to find innovations and technologies that addresses the challenges in native chicken industry (Department of Science and Technology, 2022).