DAVAO CITY – Engr. Ricardo Onate Jr., project manager of the Davao Rice Processing Complex, assured that the rice milled from their facility are safe and of good quality.
In a Philippine Information Agency dispatch, Onate said the RPC Davao only provides safe, quality and affordable rice to its consumers mostly from Davao City and Digos City.
RPC, which is based in the municipality of Matanao in Davao del Sur province, provides processing services such as drying, storing and milling of rice bought from producers in said town and neighboring areas.
Onate said that the one-stop service center is equipped with state-of-the-art postharvest facilities and technologies capable of producing genuine premium, well milled and regular milled rice.
He said that with the capability of mechanical dryer to dry fresh palay harvest, preservation of the quality of newly harvested palay is also assured.
He added that the RPC has higher milling recovery of 65 percent and only 15% loss compared to other milling facilities which only have 50% milling recovery.
About 50 to 60 bags of rice are being milled at the RPC in an hour or 400 to 480 bags of rice in an eight-hour operation, or an average of 3,000 bags of rice in one month.
The RPC Davao is one of the four rice processing facilities located in major rice producing provinces in the country being operated by DA as a grant from the government of Korea through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) with a total funding of $13 million.
RPC Davao started its full operation in August 2013. (davaotoday.com)
