MANILA — The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) is shifting its strategy to “needs-based” approach to make rice farms more productive.
MANILA — The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) is shifting its strategy to “needs-based” approach to make rice farms more productive.
PhilMech chief science research specialist Rod Estigo, in a media interview on Thursday, said that through this approach, “it will be the farmers who will tell what machinery they need — it’s the farmer’s choice.”
PhilMech earlier created six clusters in the rice producing provinces of the country that would facilitate the implementation of the farm mechanization component of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Program (RCEP).
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