Farm Machinery

2ha/day, 1 person

Adjusts w/ depth hard pan

Enables plowing sides of fields

DRUMSEEDERS

1 ha/day using 1 person

3.5 ha/day using 2 persons

POSTPRODUCTION

Rotary Reaper

• Locally designed & manufactured

• Low repair & maintenance cost

• Solves problem of limited labor on peak labor

• Increase labor productivity

• 2 ha/day using 2 persons, with minimum grain loss

• Harvests 1 ha/day, 7 - 10 persons/ha/day from harvesting to cleaning
• Grains are pulled from their panicle, leaving the whole plant on the ground
• Cuts harvesting costs by half

• About 1 ha/day, 8-10 persons
• Average in-field harvesting loss is only 2%
• Works even in soft soil condition

for optimal seed and minimal cost of harvesting

• 1 ha/day capacity, allows right harvesting
• 0.7 to 2% total harvesting and threshing losses
• requires 4 persons to operate; OK for dry & wet field conditions but for standing crops only

Simple, easy to operate, portable

• Cleans up to 35 bags inbrid seeds/ha
• Provides feed control for more precise cleaning
• Can operate weed seeds & dehulled rice
• Requires 4 persons to operate at high capacity
• Less than 1% cleaning loss

PhilRice Flatbed Dryer

• Allows for complete drying of seeds even at night and on rainy days
• Can be used to dry other crops (e.g., corn, coffee)
• 6 t/batch, at 4-8 h/batch, using 2 persons (comes in 3 sizes: 2.5t, 4t, 6t)
• Uses rice hull as fuel at 3-4 cav/h
• P10-21 to dry 40kg
• Cheapest & most economical dryer so far

Bamboo Bin Dryer

• Simple design

• Multicrop capability

• Complete drying

• Portable

• Max. of 20 cav/batch at 27-30ha/batch (up to 14% MC depending on initial MC

MICROMILL

• Mills up to 75kg of palay/h (household model); 200-250kg palay/h (village model)

• Multigrain capability

FLOURMILL

• Produces dry rice flour that can be stored for up to 6 months
• Flour produced is free from contamination
• Multicrop capability (corn, peanut, soybean, etc.)

• Rice Hull - source of fuel and fertilizer
• Increases water retention
• Excellent host of beneficial microorganisms
• Rich in P, K, Ca, Mg
• Helps control GAS population

• Boils a liter of water in 5  min using 1 kg rice hull

• Continuously burns for 28 min

• Practically smokeless

Technologies in the Pipeline

• Engine driven transplanter. 36-59% efficiency
• Mechanical drum seeder. 3-5ha/day
• Small rice combine: 2ha/ha/day; grain loss
• Panicle thresher (Cordillera); for threshing awned cultivars

• Cookstove dryer (Cordillera) for cooking food & drying grains at the same time

Bio-mixer

• makes organic fertilizer production easier can process 3.25kg biomass/load; produce 2t microbial-based inoculant/h

• A-low cost and low-volume sprayer nozzle for GA, application
• Riding tractor - 30km/day/ha (carabao, 60-80km; hand tractor, 50km)