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In February 1986, Villaruz was awarded the WIPO Gold Medal in Metro Manila for her inventions of the turtle hand tractor (also known as the power cultivator) and several others. In July 1995, she was awarded another WIPO Gold Medal in Cebu, Philippines for various inventions, including the screen type thresher . [ 3 ]
Due to rising risk of only one main production site, [7] [8] Zama decided to open a second main production facility in Santo Tomas, Batangas, Philippines which was inaugurated in January 2016. In 2018 the XiLi factories were relocated to a new factory in Huizhou , China [ 9 ] due to municipal plans to remodel the former industrial area of XiLi ...
Sifeng Model 12 HP 2WT with 5.6 tonnes of rice, Bangladesh A Changzhou Hengfeng Two-wheel tractor ('Walking Tractor') in Hsipaw ().. Research has identified several terms used to identify the two-wheel tractor including: "walk-behind tractor, iron-ox, walking tractor, mechanical ox, ox-machine, pedestrian tractor, hand tractor, single-axle tractor, and in Asia, tok-tok".
A cultivator (also known as a rotavator) is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks ) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly .
In addition, there are various types of power harrow, in which the cultivators are power-driven from the tractor rather than depending on its forward motion. Tine harrows are used to refine seed-bed conditions before planting, remove small weeds in growing crops, and loosen the inter-row soils to allow water to soak into the subsoil. The fourth ...
The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) is an attached office under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, that recommends Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for select crops. It was established in 1965 [2] as the Agricultural Prices Commission, and was given its present name in 1985. [3]
The Philippines is the world's third largest producer of pineapples, producing more than 2.4 million of tonnes in 2015. [49] The Philippines was in the top three banana producing countries in 2010, including India and China. [50] Davao and Mindanao contribute heavily to the total national banana crop. [50]
No. Portrait Secretary Took office Left office Governor-General; Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources [2]; 4: Galicano Apacible (1864–1949) [3] [4]January 11,