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)....
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) is ready to set the ball rolling for the purchase of additional P3-billion worth of farm equipment under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)....
“Rice remains as the staple food of Filipinos. And there is no food that is used as widely as rice,” says Department of Trade and Industry Undersecretary Ruth B. Castelo on the Philippines being the sixth largest rice-consuming countries in the world. After over a year of enactment of the...