15/10/2024
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Title: CREATED BY FILIPINOS, FOR FILIPINOS
Photographer: MARK JOHN A. BELLEZA
Description: Many Filipino farmers face challenges with manual harvesting, a labor-intensive process that can take up to 25 days per hectare, causing significant production losses. To solve this, farmers in Sara, Iloilo, are now using the locally developed four-in-one Rice Combine Harvester. Designed by PhilRice and funded by DOST-PCAARRD, this machine combines reaping, threshing, cleaning, and bagging into one efficient operation. With features like ground drive rubber tracks and a hydraulic
system for wet harvests, it boosts capacity to 1.5 to 2 hectares per day, reducing losses
and enhancing rice productivity for Filipino farmers.