Zambales Governor Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. encouraged farmers in the province on Tuesday to employ farm machinery from the government to increase
Zambales Govenor Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. leads the distribution of some P32-million worth of rice production machines and postharvest equipment that were secured through the efforts of Sen. Cynthia Villar, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food. agricultural production and sustain the farming industry.
These include hand tractors, levee makers, PTO-driven disc plows, rice combine harvesters, precision rice seeders, cassava granulators, shallow tube wells and composting facilities for biodegradable wastes, Ebdane said. In Candelaria, the Bunglo Zambales Irrigators Association got four-wheel tractor, PTO-driven disc plow and a hand tractor, while the Candelaria Corn Growers Association received a shallow tube well.
Meanwhile, San Felipe’s Gurung Guru Farmers Association received a hauling truck, a cassava granulator and a composting facility; the North East West South Farmers Association got two units of shallow tube well, while the town’s LGU got a four-wheel tractor and a PTO-driven disc plow.
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