Agricultural Machinery Used in the PHILIPPINES

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Summary

This video details the various types of agricultural machinery used in the Philippines, categorized by their function in farming operations, from land preparation to crop processing and harvesting, as well as general farm power and water supply equipment.

Highlights

Tractors and Land Preparation
00:00:12

The video begins by showcasing tractors, specifically wheel tractors and hand tractors (or power tillers). It then moves on to machinery used for land reclamation and development, including rotary shredders and brush cutters. Primary tillage tools like subsoilers, moldboard plows, and disc plows are also highlighted. For secondary tillage, the video mentions offset disc harrows, rotary cultivators (rotavators), ridgers (bed formers), agricultural hand tools, leveling blades, and turtle tillers.

Sowing, Planting, and Crop Care
00:01:10

Next, the video covers equipment for sowing and planting, such as conventional and pneumatic seed drills, precision planters, rice transplanters, sugarcane belay planters, and hand seeders. For crop protection, handheld and knapsack sprayers are used. Chemical fertilizing is done with mounted granular fertilizer spreaders.

Harvesting and Post-Harvest Operations
00:01:50

Harvesting machinery includes rice combine or stripper harvesters, maize pickers or husker harvesters, reapers (binders), power threshers, and pedal threshers. For handling crops, grain and root crop trailers, elevators, augers, and conveyors are utilized. Crop drying and cleaning involve grain dryers, batch grain dryers, mobile dryers, and coffee dryers. For storage, grain silos, hoppers, bins, and crop storage monitoring equipment are essential.

Crop Processing and Farm Utilities
00:02:52

The video then illustrates crop processing machinery like animal feed milling machinery, rice milling/processing machinery, maize/corn shellers, coffee processing equipment, and groundnut/peanut shellers. Crop cleaning, grading, and weighing are performed with grading and sorting machinery, and grain cleaners/seed dressers. For irrigation, water pumps are used, and land drainage is managed with tractor-mounted ditchers. Other farm machinery includes poultry housing and cages for poultry farming, and various power sources such as stationary generators, mobile generators, and diesel and petrol engines. Finally, water supply equipment features borehole drilling machinery, centrifugal water pumps, and water pumping windmills.

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