Higher rice, corn output expected in Q3
At A Glance
- In a report, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) settled the rice production from July to September at 3.80 million metric tons as of Sept. 1.<br>The expected smaller harvest area for the period at 926,870 hectares may be offset by the increase in yield per hectare at 4.10 metric tons.<br>Corn production may also swell in the third quarter to 2.46 million metric tons or 4.5 percent higher than the 2.35 million metric tons last year.<br>The estimated harvest area is up at 820.65 thousand hectares as well as corn yield per hectare at 2.99 metric tons.
The country’s rice production in the third quarter may experience a slight increase compared to the same period last year.
In a report, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) settled the rice output from July to September at 3.8 million metric tons as of Sept. 1.
This reflected an increase of 0.3 percent compared to 3.79 percent million metric tons in the same period a year earlier. However, July’s estimates were higher at 3.88 million metric tons.
Further, PSA noted in its forecast that there may be a smaller harvest area for the third quarter at 926,870 hectares, lower by 0.5 percent from the 931,750 in the same period last year.
This decrease in harvest may be offset by the increase in yield per hectare at 4.10 metric tons, slightly higher by 0.7 percent from last year’s 4.7 metric tons.
Of the 926,870 hectares harvest area for rice, around 401,900 hectares have been harvested as of Sept. 1. This translates to 1.62 million metric tons of palay output collected.
As for the 524,970 hectares that have yet to be harvested, 20.6 percent were at the reproductive stage while 79.4 were at the maturing stage.
The PSA also projected that corn production may see an increase in the third quarter to 2.46 million metric tons or 4.5 percent higher than the 2.35 million metric tons in the same period a year ago.
However, the agency indicated that this was a decrease of 3.9 percent compared to the corn output estimates of 2.56 million metric tons back on July 1.
It said that the cause for this upward revision to its forecast is the expected bigger harvest area at 820,650 hectares, up 1.8 percent from last year’s 806,420 hectares.
The corn yield per hectare is also expected to swell at 2.99 metric tons or a 2.8 percent increase compared to last year’s record of 2.91 metric tons in the third quarter.
Of the 820,650 hectares harvest area for corn, 436,670 hectares have been harvested as of Sept. 1. It produced over 1.18 million metric tons of corn output.
The 383,980 hectares of area for corn that have yet to be harvested comprised the reproductive stage at 13.9 percent and the maturing stage at 86.1 percent.