CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, March 24 -- The Department of Science and Technology in Central Luzon (DOST-3) has recently provided a compact impeller brown rice mill (CIBRM) to a farmers' group in Aurora province to boost the production and consumption of brown rice.

The initiative, which is under the agency's Expanded Community Empowerment through Science and Technology (eCEST) program, will benefit the members of the Calaocan Dipaculao Farmers Association in Dipaculao town.

DOST-Region 3 Director Julius Caesar Sicat said on Friday that through CIBRM, farmers would be able to turn their palay harvest into brown rice.

Sicat cited the need for brown rice to be available to more people, especially those with nutritional deficiencies.

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