The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), an agency under the Department of Agriculture, now has a new Executive Director in Baldwin Jallorina, a licensed agricultural engineer. Jallorina will continue to make PhilMech the leading institution for farm mechanization in the Philippines, as mandated by the Agriculture and Fisheries Mechanization Act (AfMech or Republic Act No. “Farm mechanization should be pursued aggressively by the Philippines with PhilMech taking the lead also as a generator of agriculture mechanization technologies more suited for mostly small farmers,” he said. Prior to his appointment to head the agency, Jallorina was the supervising science research specialist of the Bioprocess Engineering Division of PhilMech. Just this year, he finished his Doctorate of Philosophy in Agricultural Engineering also from CLSU as a DOST scholar.

Source: Manila Times December 28, 2017 16:07 UTC