November 3, 2024

1 thought on “The Central Luzon Loop Survey: Rice farming in the Philippines from 1966 to 2021

  1. Industrialization must now be DRASTICALLY applied to agriculture in the Philippines. It should be a public goal that each rice farmer gets to own a fully *automatic* rice transplanter. DOST may be able to produce some as public property or as grantable items through mechanical engineers, since it would mostly be diesel engine and arm assembly made of steel. It presumably uses less fuel than any typical car we see on the road, much less than a truck. The nearly 100,000-peso price tag from private manufacturers esp those from foreign countries is almost unjustifiable, and is mostly dependent on the price of steel used besides the markup, so DOST has got an opportunity here. The diesel engine, if DOST chooses to buy it instead of make it, may be around 20,000 pesos with the markup, while the rest are in a way similar to bike assembly and are already implemented in manual transplanters; the diesel engine may alternatively be incorporated into existing manual transplanters (which also have markup), albeit inconvenient for use and may be hazardous. More rows from these transplanters may also increase efficiency.

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