THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) has assured the country’s agricultural stakeholders that the distribution of the next batch of machines under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) will push through within the next two months.

In a statement, PHilMech Executive Director Baldwin Jallorina Jr. said the next batch of machines to be bidded out and awarded to qualified farmers cooperatives and associations (FCAs) under the mechanization component of RCEF will be about 50-percent bigger than the first batch, as it will have a budget of P3 billion.

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