Fit Corea Monthly Magazine - January 2023

Fit Corea team prepared and delivered units of 5825R Tractor and unit of Hanil Front Loader on December 15, 2022, and will be given over to Nueva Ecija Seed Grower Multipurpose Cooperative as their stocks. Aside from the tractors, NESGA will also receive a Levee maker machine, which will be used to create ridges and new solid levees.

Nueva Ecija Seed Grower Multipurpose cooperative has been a Fit Corea dealer and has participated in several collaborative initiatives with the Department of Agriculture in mechanizing agriculture in the Philippines.

5825R

TRACTOR

A multifunctional tractor installed with hydraulic ports that can be equip all kind of implements from manual type to hydraulic driven type without modifications thus it will not affect the power of engine. Turbo-charged engine designed for more power with TIER 3 emission for eco-friendly farming. Easy to maneuverer in a small space because of its 52 degrees rotating wheel and 12F and 12R transmission shifting gears.

HL1800

LOADER

Tractor Attachment

Mainly use for: Load materials into trucks, flatten the field, transport agricultural produce, and clean up animal manure in livestock. Digging make swales and retain some water on the ground.

TYMxBranson Tractor, a multifunctional tractor installed with hydraulic ports that can be equip all kind of implements from manual type to hydraulic driven type without modifications thus it will not affect the power of engine. Turbocharged engine designed for more power with TIER 3 emission for ecofriendly farming. Easy to maneuverer in a small space because of its 52 degrees rotating wheel and 12F and 12R transmission shifting gears.

Hanil Front Loader is a tractor attachment mainly used for loading materials into trucks, flattening the field, transporting agricultural produce, and cleaning up animal manure in livestock.Digging makes swales and retains some water in the ground.

MACHINE TURNOVER

BRIXTON CONSTRUCTION AND

CORPORATION

Brixton received a 5in1 Rice Mill for their inventory as one of FIT COREA’s dealers. The LeeHwa Rice Milling & Polishing Machine is one of the Pioneer Impeller type in the Philippines and definitely useful for farming.

The LH 5001MGOLD Rice milling and Polishing machine of LEEHWA company, has been established in the Philippines since 2006 and is now leading Rice milling machine in the country nationwide. One very good reason why it can be profitable is that the mill has a high milling recovery of 68 percent. This means that for every 100 kilos of palay milled, 68 kilos of polished rice is recovered. This is much higher than the usual milling recovery of other small rice mills that ranges from only 55 to 60 percent.

LH-800VS

portable broken separator

Mainly use for:

WHY 5in1? (It could be many more!)

1. Impurity Sorter. – It separates palay impurities such as rice straws, leaves, bigger stones, etc.

2. Separate Rice Husk - the husk is separate outlet with rice bran.

3. Rice Bran separator- the husk and the bran have their own separate outlet so you can get fine bran which you can feed to your pigs, chicken, ducks, etc.

4. Adjustable Polisher - not just your typical polisher. The polisher can be adjusted depending on the grade you want, so you can produce a semi milled or well-milled rice.

5. Stoner/Stone Separator - It separate stones from our rice. There’s many more advantages, just like; - broken sorter

- low electricity consumption3.7kw/hr (50 pesos/hr)

- low noise (almost none)

- portable - you can put anywhere, no need for big space

- easy to operate, just turn it on.

- low rice hopper for the operator to easily put palay so even seniors/old people can operate.

- very easy to change broken parts.

In addition, there are many functions like BROKEN SORTER and the machine is PORTABLE.

Separating more broken grain in order to have whole rice for commercial purpose.

MACHINE TURNOVER

Another excellent machine of Korean agricultural technology that was sent to Brixton was the Asia multipurpose handy cultivators.

The Asia multipurpose handy cultivators is the pioneer of multipurpose cultivator in the world that originated from Korea and most produced and sold cultivator among the other brands.

Asia multipurpose handy cultivator is popular for its light start facility and excellent performance. Very easy to use for anyone including elderly, female farmers or urban to rural returners with its simple control system. It can easily complete a job of 40 people a day with 30 functions.

Fit Corea and dealers have been distributing the Asia multipurpose cultivator around the country and assisting farmers and farm owners in actual demonstrations. Many cooperative and private landowners are increasingly

HANDY CULTIVATOR PLOW FORMER MULCHER

ROTARY CULTIVATOR PLOW FORMER MULCHER

Mainly use for: Farming in a primarily Cultivated field, at an orchard, or fow harrowing, soil removal, weeding and other cultivating works.

Mainly use for: Deep digging in paddy fields or fields. In particular, the dual-use plow for the manager has a small turning radius, so it is suitable for deep digging in a plastic house.

Mainly use for: Making each ridge and round ridge designed and manufactured to facilitate the work of covering soil and spreading (flatness).

Responding to the mechanized period by testing new ways and seeking for cost-effective machinery to enhance labor, reduce expenditures, and increase income in farming.

The Department of Agriculture is responding to farmer needs through mechanization and collaboration with different companies to provide the most recent and high-tech agricultural technology, which may benefit the future of Philippine farming.This multifunctional agricultural machinery can easily complete a job of 40 people a day with 30 different kinds of implements and functions. It is popular for its light start facility and excellent performance. Easy to use for anyone including elderly, female farmers or urban to rural returners with its simple control system.

Now you can do gardening even inside the village with the use of this machine. Multi-functional Handy Cultivator with Plow, Cultivator Bed Former with Plastic mulching to prepare your garden. Very easy and convenient in a small area. With the help of this machine, you can prepare your soil for planting. Very fast and very good performance. Recommended for your backyard gardening and high value crops.

MORE THAN 30 IMPLEMENTS CAN BE ATTACH

Fit Corea Team Christmas Celebration

This year’s FIT Corea Christmas party was a simple, yet fun event. The Christmas party was held on December 17, 2022 at Day Don Don Don Korean Buffet. Beforehand, the FIT Corea team had to draw names to be a secret santa for their picked colleagues. As the ex-change gift was under way, FIT Corea’s General Manager Marilou gave a short and simple speech to everyone for the next year to come. Manager said that, for next year she hoped that everyone’s bond will prosper even more, and if there is someone in need we should help them. And as the Christmas party came to an end, the FIT Corea team took a video of greetings to everyone and it was an amazing night.

FIT COREA wants to wish every reader a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! God Bless!

ACTUAL DEMONSTRATION

FILHOLLAND CORPORATION

FILHOLLAND

FILHOLLAND CORP. conducted a promotion and demonstrations of Rotating disc plow, levee maker and hydraulic leveler to private farmers in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro last November 18, 2022.

This technology demonstration of Levee Maker & PTO Driven Rotating Disc Plow was participated by the farmers and beneficiaries of the machine as part of training.

The demonstration’s objective is to observe and record the cost and yield variances of each method of land preparation so that farmers can compare them and determine which can offer the lowest cost and highest yield and income.

LEVEE MAKER

Tractor Implement Mainly use for: Banking levee and the ridges can be made hard and firmly by the level differences of the disc.

PTO DRIVEN ROTATING DISC PLOW

Tractor Implement Mainly use for: both in wet field and in dry field and it cuts bushes, weeds, small tress and roots leaving the ground ready for cultivating and planting.

OFFICE VISITS & MEETINGS

ADA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION(

Thank you Ms. Lennie Guillermo & Mr. Erwin A. Belen of ADA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION(ADAMCO) for visiting FIT Corea office!

Last December 15, 2022, ADAMCO Representatives went to FIT Corea Trading office for business meeting with President Philip, and Manager Marilou.

ADAMCO a company that manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment is called ADAMCO, and it is owned entirely by Filipinos. It belongs to the Ropali Group of Companies, which also has operations in the banking, real estate, and motorcycle sectors. Before being spun off as a separate company on February 8, 1999, ADAMCO started out by producing hand tractors as a part of Ropali Trading. The Philippines experienced a boom in

the adoption of modern agricultural technology in 2010, which sparked a demand for rice combine harvesting equipment. This development prompted ADAMCO to expand across the country. Today, ADAMCO has over 30 branches and extension outlets throughout the Philippines, making it the largest dealer of farm machinery.

Its branches can be found in the following places: locos Sur, Urdaneta, Naguillan, Abulug, Tuguegarao, Santiago, Solano, Prenza, Pulilan Bulacan, Munoz, Cabanatuan, San Leonardo, Tarlac, Quezon Province, Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Palawan, Naga, Bacolod, Jaro Iloilo, Sara Iloilo, Palo Leyte, Ormoc Leyte, Davao, Koronadal, Bukidnon, Zamboanga, Bayugan, Abra, Ilocos Norte, Bohol, Antique, Tagum and Cotabato.ADAMCO thinks that giving farmers access to cutting-edge equipment will make farming simpler and more lucrative for them. It offers the sale of small farm machin ery such as trailer beds, four-wheel tractors, rice transplanters, horizontal diesel engines, and rice combine harvesters.

Additionally, ADAMCO provides 100% complete and genuine spare parts for the equipment it sells. ery such as trailer beds, four-wheel tractors, rice transplanters, horizontal diesel engines, and rice combine harvesters. Additionally, ADAMCO provides 100% complete and genuine spare parts for the equipment it sells.

FILHOLLAND SHOWCASED BATCH OF KOREA AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AFTER BEING GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTNER WITH FIT COREA, THE KAMICO LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE PHILIPPINES.

The Fitcorea team visited AGRICOM VISAYAS INC. in Iloilo City in the morning and then went straight to the display area to inspect the Korean agricultural machinery. Then that afternoon, the agricom visayas prepared a little gathering and meeting for the Fit Corea team and Agricom visayas heads.

RP/Japan Collab for Market Driven Vegetable Sector

Author: DA-AFID | 23 December 2022

Source: Department of Agriculture website www.da.gov.ph

Department of Agriculture (DA) Senior Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Chief Representative to the Philippines Sakamoto Takema signed on December 23, 2022 the Minutes of the Meeting to Amend the Records of Discussion for the technical cooperation project of DA and JICA on Market Driven Enhancement of Vegetable Value Chain in the Philippines (MVC2).

The project, which commenced in early 2022, aims to strengthen vegetable value chain models in selected municipalities of Benguet and Quezon provinces, as well as in Metro Manila.

The signed minutes of meeting contained modifications, including an updated project framework based on the detailed planning survey conducted lat August to September, as well as pilot projects for implementation.

According to Panganiban, the MVC2 project will develop inclusive business models that will contribute to increasing the income of vegetable farmers in the country.

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Aligned with the directives of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. the project will focus on rebuilding value chains in order to achieve food security and sufficiency.

“With the increasing food prices and inefficiencies in the food supply chain due to high cost of logistics and food distribution, we need to find ways by which we can lower the production costs, deliver goods to the markets, and make it ore affordable to the consuming public,” Panganiban said.

For his part, Sakamoto explained that the long withstanding cooperation for agriculture between the Philippines and JICA has focused on the production side of value chain, which includes the establishment of agricultural infrastructures and irrigation systems.

He added that as JICA recognizes the importance of addressing the development needs in other aspects of the food value chain.

“This technical cooperation is a testament to this move, as JICA considers

that this market-oriented approach is also essential to to address the issues related to income generation, job creation and disparity mitigation among others,” he said.

Sakamoto added that the signing is a good Christmas gift to the Philippines.

“We envision our project to provide solutions to the pressing issues on food value chain, and eventually contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of Filipino farmers,” he said.

The signing was witnessed by Bureau of Plant industry OIC-Director Glenn Panganiban, Field Operations Services OIC-Director U-Nichols Manalo, Chief of Special Project Coordination and Management Division Angelita Martir, JICA Senior Representative Shimizu Mikako, and First Secretary for Agriculture of the Embassy of Japan Jumpei Tachikawa. ### (Adora D. Rodriguez, DA-AFID)

No Importation of Selected Agriculture Commodities Next Year DA

Author: DA-AFID | 23 December 2022

Source: Department of Agriculture website www.da.gov.ph

The Department of Agriculture (DA) will not import onions for the remainder of the year as the harvest is expected to begin in the upcoming weeks, Senior Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban said during a press conference on December 19, 2022.

Panganiban said onion supply is not enough but the Department is not considering importation, since farmers will begin to harvest in January and February. He added that the DA is mobilizing the Kadiwa program to stabilize prices of onions.

Upon investigation, DA monitored supply from the cold storage facilities.

“We found out that there are smugglers that are keeping their stock in warehouses,” Panganiban said.

Assistant Secretary for Inspectorate and Enforcement James Layug reported that the DA has seized about P500 million worth of smuggled agricultural products in the previous months.

Layug explained that they would file cases to five (5) consignees for violat-

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ing Republic Act No. 10845 or Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act.

“We will coordinate with the Department of Justice, with Secretary Remulla, para i-address iyong legal aspect sa pag-curb ng agricultural smuggling activities at mga identified smugglers – pero we still need to work within the law. With all the legal teams that we have right now, we will use it in order to go after them,” Asec. Layug said.

He also urged the public to work with the Department in reporting agri-smugglers.

Based on their data, Layug said around 300 metric tons or 300,000 kilograms of onions seized and confiscated by a composite team composed of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Manila International Container Port – Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (MICP-CIIS), National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection

Group (PNP-CIDG), and the Bureau of Customs (BOC).

For rice, Undersecretary Mercedita Sombilla assured that there will be no supply shortage next year.

“We don’t have shortage of supply. What happens probably is a lower beginning stock of rice,” Usec. Sombilla said.

She added that DA is making every effort to balance importation and increase local production in an effort to stabilize and even reduce the cost of commodities.

The rice program will have an additional P4.1 billion for its fertilizer subsidy program. DA is still carefully determining how much will go to organic and inorganic fertilizer.

The agency is working to finalize the purchase of fertilizers through a government-to-government arrangement by January, which will be distributed through fertilizer vouchers. ### (Kristel Joyce Merle, DA-AFID)

Kadiwa ng Pasko provides affordable and quality agri produce

Source: Department of Agriculture website www.da.gov.ph

Author: DA-AFID | 19 December 2022 https://www.da.gov.ph/kadiwa-ng-pasko-provides-affordable-and-quality-agri-produce/

The Kadiwa ng Pasko will carry on even after the holidays to serve Filipino food producers and consumers nationwide.

President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., confirmed this during the opening of the Kadiwa site in Valenzuela City over the weekend.

The President added that from the 20 stalls initially opened, there are now 350 Kadiwa sites nationwide providing quality, safe and affordable produce.

In his message, the President Marcos stressed that the Kadiwa ng Pasko, as a marketing initiative of the government, will continue to assist the Filipino people even after the busiest season of the year.

“Kahit na matapos na ang Pasko, ipapagpatuloy po natin ito para merong

pagkukuhanan ang ating kababayan ng mas murang bilihin,” the President explained.

“Ito pong Kadiwa ng Pasko ay ang aming munting pagtulong para naman ay maging mas masaya ang ating Pasko itong taon na ito,” he added.

Sales for the Valenzuela City Kadiwa reached P334,570 for rice, lowland and highland vegetables, as well as other food essentials.

Other sellers, who participated, are Agripreneur Farmers & Producers Association, Sugar Regulatory Administration, San Jose Matulid United Farmers Association, Rural Finance Club Cooperative, Brgy Atbu Women’s Association, Bicol Agripreneur Food Products, Binukawan-Bicol Marketing Cooperative, Mama Agnes Enterprises L. Sanchez Farm, IsDA on the Go

and Global Essentials.

With its success and huge impact, the 2022 Year End Poll of PUBLiCUS Asia Inc. cites the Kadiwa ng Pasko as the most approved program of the government in the 4th quarter of the year.

The national caravan, being undertaken with the support of other national government agencies including the Departments of Trade (DTI), Social Welfare (DSWD), and Labor (DOLE), provides access to basic goods at low price.

Kadiwa is the brainchild of the Department of Agriculture, established to provide urban residents fresh food items at lower price. It also gives food producers an opportunity to be agri-preneurs and directly sell their fresh harvests. ###

DA awards over P40 million worth of interventions to benefit Ilocos Norte farmers

Source: Department of Agriculture website www.da.gov.ph

Author: DA-AFID | 19 December 2022 https://www.da.gov.ph/da-awards-over-p40-million-worth-of-interventions-to-benefit-ilocos-norte-farmers/

Department of Agriculture (DA) Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban and DA Ilocos Regional Field Office (RFO) Director Annie Bares led the awarding of various agricultural interventions worth P41.153 million (M) to Ilocos Norte farmers and local government units (LGU) on December 15, 2022.

The officials awarded a total of P26.5M to the Batac City LGU for the rehabilitation of six irrigation facilities

damaged by severe tropical storm.

Another P13M was allotted for the rehabilitation of the Cabaruan canal lining to improve irrigation in the Municipality of Bacarra.

The North Main Canal Federated Irrigators Association Inc., on the other hand, received a combine harvester worth P1.418M.

In addition, 47 rice farmers from the

towns of Pasuquin, Sarrat, Vintar, Batac, Paoay, and San Nicolas each received P5,000 cash or a total of P235,000 through the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement FundRice Farmers Financial Assistance (RCEF-RFFA).

On December 16, 2022, the DA Ilocos RFO also distributed 130 small ruminants under the Livestock Program.