Harvest festival features veggies, farm machinesA three-day harvest festival starts today and will end on Saturday at the Farm 2 of Agri-Tech Integrated Services Co. (ATISCO) in Brgy. ATISCO pioneers in a farming concept that starts with the production of various crops that are used by a captive market. Under the scheme, ATISCO has acquired the farm machines to reduce the cost of producing rice. These include Branson tractors from Korea and its attachments like plow, rotavator, rice planter, rice harvester and efficient compact mills to polish the grains. For instance, if the farmer has a two-hectare farm, ATISCO will buy the harvest at an agreed price of P15 per kilo of freshly harvested palay.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 07, 2016 14:15 UTC