Company Background Wellisa Feeds Manufacturing started in the year 1991 with the starting Capital of three hundred

thousand pesos (P300, 000) and with only eight (8) personnel. It started as a manual producer of feeds for hogs and poultry. The company is situated at Barangay Tugas, Madridejos, Bantayan Island, Cebu. Even the owner, Mr. Wellington Ong Chanlim, was a pioneering worker of his own business. When the company started, problems such as lack of raw materials became a big challenge for it. The owner, with a lot of dedication and hard work, decided to lend money from banks in order to support the needs. Later on, the business started to progress which led to advancement in productions. Machines were then introduced to make the job more efficient and a lot faster. Workers have been hired and new consumers came to emerge. In the later years that came, Wellisa Feed Manufacturing became what we now call Wellisa Farms. Wellisa Farms was named after Wellington and his wife Elisa. The layer farm in Sta. Fe is just one of Wellington's five farms in Bantayan Island and two farms in Consolacion, Cebu, all with a total capacity of 250,000 birds. Actually, Wellington, 47, has four layer farms in Bantayan Island - three in Bantayan and one in Sta. Fe. Normally, his daily egg production is at least 150,000 a day. Because he is also in egg trading, which was his original business since his college days, he buys the eggs produced by other poultry producers in the island, reaching at least a million daily. His farm in Madridejos is a hog farm where he raises 250 sows for piglet production and 220 nucleus breeder sows (200) and boars (20) from Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for the production of breeder hogs. Actually, the nucleus breeders, which only arrived via chartered 747 plane last October 2005, are isolated about 400 meters away from the sows intended for the production of piglets for fattening. Later on, Wellisa Farms expanded to new business. Wellington Chanlim who operates a big poultry farm in Bantayan Island and who is into many other businesses has greatly expanded his production of the bio-organic fertilizer Durabloom. Besides his factory in Bantayan, he has put up another big factory in Consolacion. He now has a total production of 60,000 bags of Durabloom per month which are sold to corn planters in Panay Island, sugarcane plantations in Mindanao, oil palm plantations in Bohol, Mindanao, Palawan and many other places in the Visayas and Mindanao. The Biogas Digester System installed at Wellisa Farm is the fixed-dome hydraulic type middle discharge Chinese model digester. This design was taken from the Biogas Research and Training Center (BRTC), in Chengdu, PROC and was introduced and popularized by USCANEC in its promotion of biogas technology and renewable energy system in the provinces of Cebu and Bohol. Most of the manpower assigned in the facility is concentrated in the scooping and drying of digested sludge which in itself is an enterprise. Workers assigned in the sludge collection get additional compensation for every sack of dried sludge they collect everyday (P4.00/bab). Dried sludge is then mixed with processed with chicken dung to balance the potassium and phosphorus requirement. The organic fertilizer, under the brand name DURABLOOM, is commercially sold at an average of P200.00/sack and is now getting its share of the market.