Mindanao Grains Processing Co. Inc., the owner and operator of a modern post-harvest facility in Isabela, offered to provide drying and storage facilities for palay that will be bought from Isabela farmers by the National Food Authority and Isabela provincial government.
MinGrains said it could accept up to one million bags of palay to be dried and stored at its facility in Reina Mercedes, Isabela.
The facility”•considered as Southeast Asia’s biggest corn processing complex”•has a drying capacity of 1,200 metric tons per day and storage space of 60,000 MT in its 12 silos, which can also store palay.
It currently dries and stores corn harvests of local farmers working on more than 20,000 hectares of farm.
“We are grateful for this offer as we intensify our efforts to help small rice farmers and encourage LGUs to actively and directly participate in the rice industry value chain”•from palay-buying, drying, milling to rice marketing,” said Agriculture secretary William Dar.