FIT Corea President Philip Kim himself demonstrating rotavating with a 55HP Branson tractor from Korea.
We were lucky to visit the venue of a Harvest Festival that will be held on Sept. 8-10, 2016 at the Farm 2 of Agri-Tech Integrated Services Company (ATISCO) in Brgy.Talaga, Tanauan City.
The Harvest Festival is a project of the Local Government Unit of Tanauan City, ATISCO and the DA Region 4-A. The results of a vegetable production derby participated in by three seed companies, the farmers’ group in Tanauan and Biotech-UPLB will be shown to the public.The visitors will also witness the demonstration of Branson tractor from Korea doing plowing, rotavating, and making levees.
Dante Delima posing with a fruitful new upo variety from a seed company.
Branson tractors are very powerful and can easily pull heavy rotavator equipment that other brands have difficulty pulling. Branson tractors also very fuel-efficient. According to Dante Delima of ATISCO, the 55hP Branson tractor uses only P500 worth of diesel fuel to rotavate one hectare with two passes. On the other hand, a 47hp Japanese brand tractor consumes P700 worth of fuel to do the same job. Visitors will find out which seed company planted this beautiful ampalaya variety.
Well, here’s a preview of the crops visitors will see. These are mostly vegetables planted by Bayer Vegetable Seeds, East-West Seed and Allied Botanical Company. These include ampalaya, upo, squash, sitao, okra, tomato, eggplant, and more. There are also plantings of a new peanut variety, sweet corn, sesame and others.
Okra for the Japanese market.
Among the visitors on the first day are DA Usec for Agribusiness and High-Value Crops Evelyn Laviรฑa, HVCDP National Coordinator Jennifer Remoquillo, Mayor Antonio C. Halili, and Feliciano Torres, CEO of Yazaki Torres Mfg. Corporation.Branson tractor from Korea rotavating. Itt is fuel-efficient. It consumes only P500 worth of diesel to rotavate with two passes per hectare compared to P700 worth of fuel consumed by its Japanese brand counterpart to do the same job.
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