“Farm mechanization makes our life easier.”
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| Photo Credit: Enrick Tiquil/DA Caraga |
BBIDAI was formed way back 1977 started as a group of
rice farmers; an irrigation recipient of the National Irrigation Administration,
and as time goes by progress into an enterprising association.
With strong leadership, BBIDAI became a recipient of
various interventions from the Department of Agriculture.
“We are fortunate that DA provides us various support
such as a rice planter, farm tractor, multipupose drying pavement, multipurpose
open storage, rice mill with building, warehouse, and combine rice harvester,”
De Paz said.
He said that with support of government agencies such
as DA, they are now engaged in various services for their 178 members such as
marketing, trading, mortgage, savings and loan and agri input provisions.
“The support of DA really makes our life more
convenient especially during harvesting. With the provision of rice combine
harvester, harvesting is no longer laborious as compared to manual and it can
be done in a faster time,” De Paz explained.
Using the combine harvester, a three-hectare ricefield
could be done in just three hours, but in manual harvesting for an average of
10 persons, the three-hectare could be done in a whole day.
Rice farm owners could also save a lot since in manual
harvesting, for every 100 sacks of harvested palay, the payment could be 8 sacks
for the harvester plus another 8 sacks for the tresher or a total of 15 sacks;
while with combine harvester for every 100 sacks of palay harvested, the
payment is only 10 sacks. Moreover, palay wastage is only minimal in using
mechanization as compared to manual process.
“Undoubtedly, farm mechanization is a big help for the farmers.
We could save time, effort, and money,” De Paz said.
True to its name, rice combine harvester combines basic
important job during harvests such as harvesting, threshing and grain cleaning
or winnowing and morever, sacking of the harvested palay.
From its income from various services, the association
had acquired additional two units of combine rice harvester servicing its
members and non-members as well.
Currently, DA has also established recirculating dryer
for the association which soon to be in service. (Aurelius P. Arais/DA Caraga)
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