An ergonomic design of a manual rice transplanting device

• Main Authors: Lao, Tiffany Joyce S., Lua, Tabitha Ricci K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2000
• Subjects: Planters (Agricultural machinery), Human engineering; Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/4340
• Institution: De La Salle University

Palay production in the Philippines accounts for about 18% of the total agricultural output. Rice harvests have grown for about 5% annually from 91 million tons in 1992 to about 11.3 million tons in 1996. This shows that rice has remained in the Filipinos' diet and almost all their agriculture....