To reduce the country’s dependence on imported farm machineries, the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) is hoping that it could develop the local prototype for foreign rice equipment being bought using Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF).
PHilMech Executive Director Baldwin Jallorina said that even though the agency already began bankrolling RCEF’s mechanization component, there was no let-up in the agency’s implementation of its core mandate, which is research and development (R&D).
He also said that the agency is targeting to localize all rice farm equipment being bought using RCEF in six years.
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