Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) may seem too preoccupied with the utilization of Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), but a set of machinery it developed to boost other high-value commodities like cacao and coffee are now on its way towards commercialization.
Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) may seem too preoccupied with the utilization of Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), but a set of machinery it developed to boost other high-value commodities like cacao and coffee are now on its way towards commercialization.
Philmech Chief Science Research Specialist Rod Estigoy said his agency needed to restructure its office in order to pave the way for RCEF utilization and at the same time be able to still fulfill its original mandate, which is to develop machinery to improve the production not just of the country’s main staple but of all agriculture products.
PHilMech is one of the government agencies tasked to utilize bulk of the RCEF, which is the tariff collected from imported rice, to make Filipino rice farmers competitive amid the entry of more imported rice into the country.
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