The Department of Agriculture will conduct a series of agricultural farm machinery and equipment roadshow, dubbed as ‘AgriMach 2011,’ involving manufacturers, suppliers, importers and dealers of agricultural machinery and equipment, who will showcase their respective products to interested farmers’ groups and local government units.
The roadshow — with the theme, ‘Aangat ang ani at kita sa paggamit ng tamang makinarya’ — starts in Luzon, on August 23-24, 2011, at the DA’s Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. The second leg will be staged in Iloilo, for the Visayas cluster, on September 6-7, and on September 20-21 in Marbel,South Cotabato, for the Mindanao leg.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said the DA plans to make AgriMach an annual affair to encourage farmers to mechanize their operations — from land preparation, production, harvesting, processing to marketing — to increase their productivity and incomes.
Pursuing sustained agricultural, fishery and livestock industry mechanization also intended to address the declining and ageing labor force in the agriculture and fishery sector…
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