Manila, Dec. 10 -- President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Wednesday led the ceremonial groundbreaking of the first full-scale agricultural manufacturing complex in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, as part of efforts to strengthen the country's agricultural mechanization.

Established through a memorandum of understanding between the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Korea Agricultural Machinery Industry Cooperative (KAMICO), the Korea Agricultural Machinery Industry Complex (KAMIC) is the first facility in the Philippines dedicated to the assembly and manufacture of agricultural machinery, such as tractors, harvesters, cultivators, and seeders, to meet local farming conditions.

During the groundbreaking ceremony, Marcos said the facility...