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II Agri
Performance
II Im/export
Trade II
Sales & Demand
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Sources
& Supply
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Stats
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Sources
of Agricultural Machinery Supply
Agricultural
machinery and equipment come from local production and
importation. Unfortunately, local manufacturers can only make
small machinery and equipment like power tillers, hand tractors,
palay threshers, husker-sheller, corn sheller, harvester, flash
dryer, rice mill, pumps, disc plows, disc harrows, poultry and
livestock equipment. These are manufactured in Bulacan, Pampanga,
Tarlac, Los Baños and Manila.
About
56% of these enterprises are in Luzon (mostly are based in the
National Capital Region), 8% in the Visayas, and 36% in Mindanao.
The larger and more
sophisticated machinery like feed mill equipment, irrigation
systems, recirculating dryers, sugarcane equipment, incubator,
grain silo, tractors, etc. are imported. Among the local
importers/distributors include Abomar Corporation, Alpha
Machinery, Century Ventures Corporation, Chia Tung Phils., Inc.
Faires Machines (Phils), Inc., Ford Tractor Parts Supply, G.A.
Manufacturing Co., Inc., Golden Harvest Global Corporation, Kubota
Agro-Industrial Machinery Philippines, Inc., L.A. Agro Industrial
Technik, Magco, Inc., Manila Machinery, Netafim Philippines, SEA
Commercial Co., Inc., Sime Darby
Pilipinas, Inc., Uptown Industrial Sales, and Zinvenco Industrial
Sales Corporation (Reyes, 2001)
There
are more than 400 machinery manufacturers and dealers of various
sizes in the country.
From
the nationwide survey of agricultural machinery manufacturers
and dealers of AMTEC small scale manufacturers supplied
machineries only within their municipality and neighboring
town. While medium scale manufacturers operate within their
province or region and the large scale manufacturers operate
nationwide and they have well entrenched distributors’
network.
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