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by Dyann C. Daniel
From humankind’s earliest efforts at agriculture over 10,000 years ago, little has changed in the challenges associated with grain storage. Efforts to seal and protect grain stores against losses to spoilage and pests have led to countless approaches to grain storage systems, giving way to globalization. Despite many advances in grain storage construction techniques, the challenges have remained the same while the need for flexible on-site grain storage continues to increase.
Isabela State University in the Isabela Province, Philippines, with a mandate of providing advanced instruction in the agricultural and natural sciences as well as in technological fields, took action on these trials by innovating a Self-Propelled Riding Type Grain Collector (Bagger) for Solar Dried Grains. The project was recently approved for TECHNiCOM funding following the Program’s 1st Wave of Call for Proposals.
The machine, having a high capacity of 360-380 cavans (18-19 tons) per hour, can collect solar-dried grains on paved roads and save them from possible wetting due to sudden rainfall. With over 80 percent of farmers, related cooperatives, and traders using solar drying, this technology has an economic advantage in the quality and quantity production of solar-dried crops.
ISU’s Grain Bagger, in its second design, as conceptualized by Dr. Alcaraz
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by Krystal Szeg Vitto
The Technology Application and Promotion Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-TAPI) through its Applied Communications Unit for Inventors (ACU-i) will be distributing the first edition of a book series titled “Towards Attainment of Progress through Innovation” this August 2022.
After its soft launching during the TAPI Anniversary held last May 13, the agency targets to conduct physical and virtual launching and distribute printed copies of the book that features eight Filipino inventors to different stakeholders, including the DOST Regional Offices and partner agencies within the innovation ecosystem.
The highlights of the soft launching involved the recognition of the featured Filipino inventors who willingly participated and shared their life stories that served as inspiration and filled the main pages of the series’ first edition titled, “Tanaw”. The event also gave the public a glimpse of the book’s content and the creative process behind its development.
Tanaw’s book cover is illustrated by a visual artist from Baguio City, Danielle Florendo.
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