A SINGLE technology upgrade could demonstrate how targeted government support raises farm productivity, creates jobs, and strengthens the country’s agricultural backbone.

Through the Department of Science and Technology’s Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (DOST-Setup) under its Innovation Fund (iFUND), RNB Rice Mill, owned by Nelson Balesoro, has modernized its harvesting and threshing operations with the acquisition of a mechanical harvester.

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