A town in Occidental Mindoro will get a P60-million rice processing system (RPS) designed to reduce farmers' postharvest losses and improve the quality of milled rice, the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) said. In a statement, PHilMech said they recently broke ground in Rizal town one unit of multi-stage rice mill and two units of mechanical dryers. 'This project is a complementation effort of PHilMech and the [local government] of Rizal, which aims to reduce postharvest losses among the farmers' produce, improve the rice processing system in the province, and make the state-of-the-art facilities in drying and milling [available] to the farmers,' PHilMech said.

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