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Business > Agribusiness
DA boosts nationwide farm mechanization program
By Eireene Jairee Gomez
Mar 17, 2022 12:01 am

THE Department of Agriculture reported increased production on rice farmers, thanks to the agency's intensified mechanization program provided by the Rice Tariffication Law's Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF).

As of Dec. 31, 2021, some 682,502 farmers nationwide have benefitted from free farm machinery and equipment made possible by the RCEF's mechanization program, the chief of the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) said in a virtual press briefing.

The distribution of farm machines to qualified farmers groups has a funding of P5 billion per year from 2019 to 2022 under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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