DA FUNDS TOPNOTCH BATANGAS SLAUGHTERHOUSE

Tanauan City in Batangas will have its first government-owned Triple A slaughterhouse set to start operations in November with funding from the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the P187.2 million facility.

Both the DA and the Tanauan City government jointly financed the topnotch slaughterhouse which will be operated and  managed on behalf of the DA and Tanauan LGU by the Unified Batangas Swine Producers Association (UniBat). It will collect fees to sustain its operation and maintenance.

Plans are afoot to expand the facility, which will It will collect fees to sustain its operation and maintenance., with the setting up of an additional cold storage and cutting facility.

“On behalf of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, we thank the Tanauan City government for counterparting with the Department of Agriculture for putting up this first modern, government-owned ‘Triple A’ slaughterhouse in the Philippines,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said during an inspection of the facility under construction.

“Undoubtedly, the Tanauan ‘AAA’ slaughterhouse will help propel the modernization of the livestock industry in Batangas, and subsequently provide a sustained livelihood, source of income, and affordable, safe, and hygienic meat products to constituents and neighboring communities, including Metro Manila,” said Dar.

Located near the Tanauan vegetable trading center, the “AAA” hog slaughterhouse sits on a 1.9-hectare area, donated and developed by the city local government unit (LGU).

The slaughterhouse has a total floor area of 2,588 square meters, composed of a mechanized system that can process 500 head of hogs per eight-hour shift. It is equipped with a cold chain network consisting of three chilling rooms, two blast freezers, and three cold storage rooms. Also, it has a meat laboratory and wastewater treatment area.