The Department of Agriculture (DA) has tapped the country’s top state university for joint research and development (R&D) on postharvest and agricultural mechanization technologies.

Rex Bingabing, executive director of DA’s Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), said that the partnership with the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City (UP Diliman), is part of the agency’s thrust to tap state colleges and universities (SUCs) in the development and promotion of farming mechanization and post-harvest technologies.

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