THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) on Monday pledged to support Tanzania and other African countries in efforts to modernize their respective agriculture industries.<\/p>\n
Officials of PHilMech \u2014 a Department of Agriculture (DA)-attached agency tasked to boost productivity and income for farmers and fisherfolk through technology \u2014 attended a United Nations\u2019 Food and Agriculture Organization event in Tanzania to share best practices in agricultural development.<\/p>\n
A presentation by PHilMech Director Dionisio Alvindia discussed the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), whose P10-billion annual fund supports farmers through mechanization, seed development, credit assistance\u00a0and\u00a0training to compete with cheaper imported rice.<\/p>\n
The RCEF has increased harvest mechanization levels to rise to 2.81 horsepower per hectare from the previous 2.31. It has also reduced labor costs by P2 per kilogram and minimized postharvest losses, saving rice enough to feed 95,000 families annually, Alvindia said.<\/p>\n
In attendance were officials of the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute, World Bank Tanzania, African Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency-Tanzania Office\u00a0and\u00a0the European Union Office in Tanzania.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alvindia and PHilMech Facility Management and Field Operations Division Acting Chief Raymond Andres likewise joined the Africa Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization.<\/p>\n A Tanzanian delegation will visit the Philippines next month.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) on Monday pledged to support Tanzania and other African…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[55],"tags":[39502,6646,7393,51294,4342,152,19020],"class_list":["post-89192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tanzania","tag-agency","tag-best","tag-da","tag-practices","tag-shares","tag-tanzania","tag-with"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116086482341237734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}