Korea farm machines are coming!
Don’t look now but more and more Korean farm machines are coming to bolster farm mechanization in the Philippines.
On Wednesday, during the anniversary of the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Farm Mechanization (PhilMech), a full contingent of the Korea Agricultural Machinery Industry Cooperative (Kamico) will be there to participate in the formal start of collaboration of the two parties in promoting mechanization in the country.
Aside from developing a compact village-type corn mill, a Farm Mechanization Training Center will be set up at the headquarters of PhilMech in the Science City of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.
The training center will showcase the different agricultural machinery that are needed in mechanizing farm operations in big as well as small farms. These include tractors and various equipment that can make farming more fun and profitable.
The problem today in the Philippines is the lack of farm laborers when they are most needed. In harvesting rice, for instance, some farmers often experience difficulty in looking for laborers to harvest the ripening grains. One reason is the proliferation of malls in the provinces.
How does that affect the supply of farm laborers? Well, young farm people prefer to get employed in the supermarkets (even if they are just baggers) because they don’t get exposed to the sun and rain. They work in air-conditioned building and they also get usually a higher pay than being a farm laborer.
Harvesting machines are also needed whenever there is an impend-