New agricultural equipment from the international rice research institute

This program is primarily focused towards the requirements of the 2-to-10-hectare tropical farms which are too large to work with animals and uneconomic to work with the farm equipment originating from the industrialized countries. Technology to dry and process paddy in large centralized plants is readily available from the industrialized countries. The department"s program in this area is, therefore, directed towards the development of simple drying and processing systems for farm and village level operations. Some of the machinery developed at the Institute are shown in the included illustrations. A number of these machines are now in commercial production in Asia.