CAPON SCHEDULE ONCE AGAIN

It's time once again to do our Pamora Capon. Time flies so past with busy schedules that I almost forgot to schedule my Capon operation for December time. On Wednesday July 21, I schedule to operate 300 cockerels for more more gastronomy experts who knows and patronage our Pamora Capon...

This time of the year reminds me of our Capon operation training to Pamora Farm staffs & veterinarians by the Capon expert Ms. Manon Perrault, who came and gave a week Capon teaching on June 2008.

Manon Perrault preparing to operate the 5 week old cockerel.

Then, its our time to do the Capon. Everybody's busy concentrating to do Capon :)

L-R: Dr. Jomarh Zales-DVM, Gener Sagudang-Pamora Staff, Dr. Mike Crisologo-DVM, veterinary consultant of Pamora Farm, and Junior del Rosario-Pamora Staff.

And yours truly in Capon operation :)

A picture after my Capon operation training in Thil, Haute Garonne, France.

L-R: Mme. Anne Perrault, Gerard Papillon, Mr. Louis Perrault, Manon Perrault and Me :)

Very tiring day. We operated 1,000 cockerels in one day.

No sitting. No talking. Not even picture taking during Capon operations in France which starts end of June or beginning of July each year.

Finally Inaugurated!

We had a great day on June 18, 2010. Sunny!

After almost a week of rains, heaven was very kind to us not pouring a single rain drop on our inauguration day.

The program went well. On time. Well, close enough, at exactly 11:10 am our program started and went on as planned. Our Director Mr. Gerard Papillon welcomed our guests and visitors with his welcome remarks :)

Then the ribbon cutting...

Our ribbon cutting was done with the following:L-R: Mayor Bisares of Pidigan, Abra; Dir. Lucrecio Alviar of D.A.-CAR; Exec. Director Jerry Baliang of NMIS; Governor Bersamin of Abra; Yours truly; French Ambassador Thierry Borja de Mozota; and Mr. Gerard Papillon.

Followed with the blessing of the whole dressing plant by Fr. Lunes Taoil of Pidigan Parish.

Every room and every equipment.

And the lunch was served....

In this table, our guests from Manila. L-R: Mr. Claude Fourrez, the Belgian investor of Pamora Farm; Mr. Dominique Lebastard, Trade Commissioner of French Embassy's Economic Mission; Mr. Jean-Louis Bertrand, the Second Councillor of the French Embassy; and Mr. Henry Ortiz, the Administrator of the Le Club-French Chamber of Commerce. THANK YOU for coming Sirs!

In this photo, L-R: Regional Director Lucrecio Alviar of D.A.-CAR; Abra Governor Takit Bersamin; Mr. James NG of Elite Air, our supplier of cold storage/freezing facilities; French Ambassador Thierry Borja de Mozota; Mr. Gerard Papillon; and Mr. Jean-Louis Bertrand of French Embassy. THANK YOU for coming Sirs!

With this photo, L-R: Madame Percy Binalay of Bureau of Immigration; yours truly; Mr. Gerard Papillon; Ms. Josie Paat, our flower decorator; Mrs. Zelda Kienle and Mr. Max Kienle, the Swiss investor of Pamora Farm. My warmest THANK YOU to you all!

And here, in this photo, L-R: Madame Ruby Bersamin, the better half of Abra Governor Bersamin; Mr. Antonio Roces, the President of FRLD, the organizers of yearly AGRILINK; Fr. Rene Amasi, Parish Priest of Bangued; and Mr. Miguel Unson, Director of FRLD. My sincerest THANK YOU to you all!

And most of all, this even will not be as successful without our PDP staffs. THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO YOU ALL!!!

JUNE 14... Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary!

Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary to our Parents!

Tatay Roger and Nanay Linda!

We are blessed with parents with full of love and respect.

Pamora Farm is not complete without our parents!

We are family.

My parents, seated in the middle, Nanay Linda (58) and Tatay Roger (64).

Beside our Nanay is our youngest brother Donato. Beside our Tatay is our brother Rogelio Jr.

And of course, the tres marias behind.

On the right is our eldest sister Ana Marie. On the left is our second sister Wilma.

And in the middle, who else but me... the only Arestina in the family :)

(Ako ata ang author dito kaya dapat lang bida ako anoh! Ha Ha Ha!)

The most important is, we are all together and helping each other to run our business.

I thank my parents who are always there to help and support my Pamora Farm projects.

Best wishes! More wedding anniversaries to come!

Cheers!

Can't wait till JUNE 18!

Are we ready yet? Well, its just few sleeps before the big day for us. The farm has been always ready though :) Clean and in order :)

The Poultry Dressing Plant (PDP) premises have few things to arrange but 95% ready. We hope to have sunshines on June 18. Opsss, I mean sunny day :)

This big machines for the blast freezing facility has to be transfer just some few meters :) But I have no worries at all. The technical guys from ELITE AIR, our supplier of blast freezing, air-chilling, cold storage and air-conditioning equipments from Taiwan, are very good at their job! Worth paying real professional technicians and experts on the job! You don't have to stay with them the whole time and guessing what is what and which is which to give you answer on your questions. Leave the job to them and when you come back, everything is in order, and working! Thats what they are being paid for, expensive but true and honest specialist.

And... the most important of all dressing facilities... the over-head conveyors! Yes! They are installed by BAYLE technical guys from Malaysia and France. Wow! I feel super great to show this to our visitors on June 18!

Can't wait :)

WE'RE SO EXCITED!

Amazing how pictures are showing us our hard work. We barely notice it in a day to day operation, but gosh, when we look into our photo files, look what we achieved!

Our upgraded, modern poultry dressing plant! Designed to dress much more volume, some 500 chicken an hour! WOW! This is progress in our own little way :)

This is how the site looks like just after we had our groundbreaking rites on June 18, 2009. It was a rainy day! But in spite of the heavy rain, our guests, I guess excited as we were, didn't bother the rain. They are as happy as we are because a dream is becoming true.

DROPPING THE CAPSULE.

In this photo, from L-R: Dr. Flor Pintor, NMIS-CAR Regional Director; Ms. Clarizz Salumbides, representative of French Embassy; Arch. George Chua, Pamora Farm Project Engineer; Gov. Takit Bersamin, Abra Governor; Gerard & Me; and Dr. Anthony Bantog of D.A.-CAR.

We are all laughing in the rain! :-D We embrace the nature as it pours all the blessings!

Since then, after the ground breaking on June 18, 2009, the construction works didn't stop. The progress were amazing. The workers are very proud of their work with the French technologies in construction being shared by Mr. Papillon. See the building? It's a 32.9 meters long by 12 .8 meters wide without middle posts. I don't understand construction but I find this interesting...

We even fabricated our own hollow blocks, real ones. Neat, solid and quality hollow blocks. Have you seen rebars in between the blocks? None. As explain by Gerard, my French man :) a real hollow blocks doesn't need to be poured and filled with cement, gravel & sand mix, then its not hollow anymore :)

This is an ACEF (Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund) assisted project, of the Department of Agriculture. Meaning, well monitored and regularly evaluated by the Regional Field Unit of the D. A. of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). Well documented.

Yes! The arrival of our equipments. P.U. Panels for the cold room, blast freezing & air chilling facilities.

Having heavy equipments plus the man powers just saves the day! I couldn't imagine how we could have made the liftings without this forklift :) Thanks to our Hon. Elmer Bides, he lend us this forklift without any fees. Friendship is the word :-D

Then, the latest installation of our upgraded electrical supply. We installed 3 units of 25-kva transformers for our 3-Phase line. Abra Electric Company (ABRECO) and our Electrical Engineers had a great job! Expensive but we are sure its safe and quality works!

WOW... What a great feeling of able to put up a project that will serve and uplift the free-range chicken farming in the province of Abra.

We are set to inaugurate on June 18, 2010. Exactly a year after the groundbreaking.

Isn't amazing!