CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija (December 10, 2025)— On Wednesday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. led the ground breaking on the multi-billion-peso facility that KAMIC will build in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and Local Government Unit (LGU) of Cabanatuan City.

Nueva Ecija will reinforce its status as the epicenter of agricultural modernization in the country with the multi-phased plan of Korea Agricultural Machinery Industry Complex (KAMIC) to develop a full-scale agricultural manufacturing complex in the province.

Korea Agricultural Machinery Cooperative (KAMICO), will be the Philippines’ most ambitious step yet towards agricultural industrialization to date.

KAMICO—representing Korean agri-machinery manufacturers and credited for driving Korea’s own farm mechanization since 1962—is set to bring its expertise to the Philippines through a long-term manufacturing partnership with the DA and LGU Cabanatuan City.

The KAMIC will rise on a 20-hectare site in Brgy. Kalikid Sur, identified and approved jointly by the DA and the Cabanatuan City government. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2026 and will roll out over three consecutive three-year phases: starting with Phase 1, the Semi-Knocked Down (SKD) Assembly; Phase 2, Completely Knocked Down (CKD) Assembly; and lastly, Manufacturing Assembly for Phase 3. ### (Photos by Jay Morales, DA-OSEC Comms)