Mechanized Rice Farmer From PhilMech Make Saving From Planting Rice
A scientist and PhilMech director Dr. Dionisio G. Alvindia of Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization is a mechanized rice farmer.
A 30-hectare rice farm in Quezon, Nueva Ecija was operated by Dionisio and his wife. The farm operation was mechanized from land preparation, transplanting up to harvesting.
Dr. Alvindia has joined the latest agricultural mechanization show in Cheonan City in Korea together with many agricultural types of machinery to be used for farming purposes. He said that this mechanization can really reduce the cost of producing rice and can save as much as P6, 500.
Dionisio was the first to use the mechanical transplanter here in the Philippines. Alvindia did not buy his rice transplanting machine, instead, he improvised his own existing transplanter by rehabilitating an old tractor and fabricating metal trays for growing his plants.
In one hectare, it takes 20 people in one day if the seedlings will be manually transplanted but using his mechanized transplanter it would only take 3 people to transplant the seedlings in one day using his machine that’s why he is able to save up to P6, 500.
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