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SWS: Majority of Filipino families says none of their food is home-produced

Only 7% say 'big part' of their food is home-produced

Published Mar 17, 2023 11:00 am
A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted in December 2022 revealed that 58 percent of Filipinos families said none of their food is home-produced, while 41 percent said a part of their consumption is homegrown. Of those who said part of their food was home-produced, only seven percent said it was a “big part” of their consumption, while 34 percent said it was only a “small part,” the survey results released on Friday, March 17, showed. Families who said that at least a small part of their food is home-produced were further asked what type of food they produced. Eighty-seven percent said they planted crops, 41 percent raised livestock, and 7 percent farmed fish.

Crops most common food produced in all areas, followed by livestock and fish

 Among food-producing families, crops were the most common type of home-produced food in all areas, SWS said. The percentage of food-producing families that grow crops was highest in Balance Luzon (91 percent), followed by the Visayas (85 percent), Mindanao (84 percent), and Metro Manila (82 percent). Livestock was the second most common home-produced food in all areas, with the highest percentage of families producing it in Mindanao (52 percent), followed by the Visayas (40 percent), Balance Luzon (35 percent), and Metro Manila (27 percent). Fish was the third most common home-produced food in all areas, with the percentage of food-producing families that farm fish hardly varying in the Visayas (8 percent), Balance Luzon (7 percent), and Mindanao (5 percent). Meanwhile, SWS noted that none of the sample families in Metro Manila farmed fish.

Fewer Metro Manila families have home-produced food than in other areas

 SWS said families who said that a big part of their food is home-produced were fewer in Metro Manila (1 percent) than in Mindanao (10 percent), Balance Luzon (8 percent), and the Visayas (7 percent). Likewise, families who say that a small part of their food is home-produced were fewer in Metro Manila (3 percent) than in the Visayas (45 percent), Mindanao (42 percent), and Balance Luzon (35 percent). “Conversely, more families in Metro Manila (96 percent) say that none of their food is home-produced compared to Balance Luzon (57 percent), the Visayas (48 percent), and Mindanao (48 percent),” SWS pointed out.

More families in rural areas than in urban areas have home-produced food

In December 2022, SWS said there were more families in rural areas (12 percent) than in urban areas (2 percent) that said a big part of their food is home-produced.

Likewise, more families in rural areas (49 percent) than in urban areas (20 percent) said that a small part of their food is home-produced.

SWS also said that more families in urban areas (78 percent) than in rural areas (39 percent) said that none of their food is home-produced.

However, it pointed out that the percentage of families who said that a big part of their food is home-produced did not vary between families who had experienced involuntary hunger (7 percent) and those families who had not (7 percent).

But then, more families who had not experienced involuntary hunger (35 percent) said that a small part of their food is home-produced than families who had experienced hunger (27 percent).

“Conversely, more families who experienced hunger (65 percent) say that none of their food is home-produced than families who had not,” SWS said.

SWS conducted the 2022 fourth quarter nationwide survey from Dec. 10 to 14 using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults, 18 years old and above.

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