The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is introducing vermi technology or the use of cultured earthworms on a nationwide scale for composting and fish feeding to cut back on fish cost as feeds, increase livelihood opportunities in the regions and reduce environmental pollution.
The National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) of Japan has engaged in a robotic project that fully mechanized rice production with a global positioning system (GPS) capability that can painstakingly transplant rice using sensors and computers which can be independent from human activities or the use of human labor. The transplanting machine can make an accurate plan and direction on where to transplant around a six inch long rice seedlings. The rice seedlings are grown over two weeks on a long mat, using hydrophonics culture system.
Have you ever heard of a hand held firefighting nozzle with no back pressure? Well, the zero back pressure technology for firefighting nozzle is here with us now, it has to stay to enable us to upgrade our firefighting capability and to get rid off the constraints that the conventional firefighting nozzle had been facing since its inception. One of these constraints, is the manual usage of firemen on bigger diameters which is not possible for conventional firefighting nozzle because of the uncontrollable effect of back pressure that it has brought in. Firemen are usually confined only to using not bigger than 2.5 inch diameter of conventional firefighting nozzle due to safety concern and the difficulty to contain the back pressure manually. It usually took four men to control a 2.5 inch at 250 psi conventional firefighting nozzle. With this new technology at hand, the firefighting industry could now be able to reduce their manpower requirement by more than half than what they normally require. Not only that, this could be also advantageous to communities, volunteer fire department and areas with limited firefighting resources.
