Agriculture Business Week

The lowly mango picker or more locally known as sigpao, might be considered as a very simple tool ordinarily used for harvesting mango fruits but it plays an important role in making harvesting easier and in preventing losses that occur during the process.

Traditionally, the use of sigpao has long been practiced in fruit-producing provinces, which definitely have their own designs of sigpao. However, problems in the use of these pickers such as low capacities and ineffective designs which cause losses during harvesting, have been encountered.

To address these problems, the Agricultural Engineering Division of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI-AED) has developed an improved mango picker designed to ease picking operation and reduce losses. The modified design, which is based on the results of the review and field testing of the performance of the existing sigpaos, was released years back and is now being used in some mango-producing provinces all over the country.
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Posted on October 12th, 2008 under Fruits. Tags: Harvesting Business, Mango. Comments: None

Buying vegetables can be so much fun if you pick it yourself.

Experience this at the Gawad Kalinga Selecta Village Urban Farm in Cainta City where customers harvest all the veggies they want to buy. Residents of the GK Selecta Village call this “pick and pay”. This is what makes this 3,400square meter farm unique and, more importantly, a profitable livelihood for the 94 families living in the GK Selecta Village, which Unilever-Selecta Ice Cream Corporation supports.

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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 under Vegetables. Tags: Harvesting Business, Veggies. Comments: None