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The local government unit (LGU) of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija will be the recipient of a P61.4-million RPS to be used by rice farmers in the province. The said system will have two units of 12-ton recirculating dryers and a 2-3 ton/hour multi-pass rice mill.

TWO farmers cooperatives and associations (FCAs) in Ilocos Norte signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) for the establishment of rice processing system (RPS) facilities under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Mechanization Program.

A FORMAL assessment of machineries and facilities is needed to address the low fund utilization of the farm mechanization budget of the government.

Since the Rice Tariffication Law was enacted in March 2019, local rice prices have gone up.

THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) gave the provincial local government of Davao de Oro (DdO) some P7.89 million worth of production and postharvest machines.Dr. Ofero Capariño, who represented PhilMech director Dr. Dionisio Alvindia during the turnover ceremony on July 27, 2023 at the DdO Farm, Pasian, Monkayo, said the machines were given under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Mechanization Program.

THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) has set the distribution of P151.8 million worth of rice processing systems (RPS) to be distributed under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)-Mechanization Program.

Philippine rice farms have seen little improvement in the use of machinery and equipment despite the billions of pesos poured into farm mechanization

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. personally turned over P115.3 million worth of national government support to South Cotabato Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. to be used for the Consolidated Rice Production and Mechanization Program (CRPMP) of the provincial government.

THE mechanization level of rice farms in the Philippines went up to 2.679 horsepower per hectare (hp/ha) as of the end of 2022, a marked increase from the 2.31 hp/ha recorded in 2013, the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) said on Friday.

KORONADAL CITY—President Marcos graced on Wednesday the launching of South Cotabato province’s rice production and modernization program but did not discuss in detail his campaign promise to bring down the price of the nation’s staple to P20 per kilo. Spending less than an hour in nearby Banga town with farmers and agriculture officials, the President, […]