THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) gave assurances that no farm equipment it distributed to qualified beneficiaries are in a 'decaying' state.

PHilMech Director Dionisio Alvindia Jr. said that the agency continues to deploy monitoring teams to identify farmers' cooperatives and associations (FCAs), and local government units (LGUs) that misuse or underutilize the agricultural equipment given to them under the program. The misused and underutilized machines are reallocated by PHilMech or given to another FCA and LGU.