Corn Mill and Corn Sheller |
A gift from Mr. Willem Kerkhof |
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Since the Manobos began having harvests of corn, they processed it manually, with a stone or wood corn grinder. PASALI designed and fabricated a corn mill machine, which the community in Biao has used since 2009. A PASALI engineer based its design on a manual coffee grinder from the Netherlands. Its runs on a 9- HP generator, donated by a PASALI Dutch corporate partner. Several capable IPs were trained for the maintenance of the machine and the community members take care of their own fuel.
PASALI also fabricated a corn sheller. Rather than them manually removing the husk from the corn, this machine removes it for them. It too runs on the 9 HP generator. These machines helped the village upscale their production and supply. The traders of two new markets in the vicinity of Biao have made the corn farmers of this Manobo village the main supplier of their corn. Biao inhabitants have sped up and put extra care in their corn growing, seeing possibilities with their machines. Other Manobo communities have approached PASALI and the elders of this village, inquiring after these machines and the planting methods that have already spread out to four other villages. PASALI plans to design and fabricate more machines to complement the agricultural production of the IPs, including implements for the processing of rubber once the agro-forestry plans start. Other appropriate technologies already in line and could be fabricated for IP villages, are: - FERTILIZER PROCESSER (processing organic fertilizer) - HYDRAULIC RAM PUMP (by BBC World Challenge winner AIDFI) - ROTARY WEEDER (for SRI rice and other crops) |
Last September Willem Kerkhof celebrated his 65th birthday and instead of a gift, he asked his family and friends to contribute to the work of Pasali, especially for the development of technical equipment in agriculture. Mr. Willem Kerkhof is the Director of Miltop, a Dutch company specialized in environmental technology for soil remediation. The amount raised by his friends was doubled by him and in total, an amount of Euro 4.600 (237.000 Philippine Pesos) was raised which Pasali will use for the development of technical equipment for the rice and corn production and processing in Biao and 4 other communities where Manobo indigenous people (IPs) lives.
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Migrants’ initiative transforms community through technology and Tri-people empowerment.
Migrants’ initiative transforms community through technology and Tri-people empowerment.
