RICE production likely fell in the third quarter due to a series of storms that hit the country over the July-September period, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Monday.
RICE production likely fell in the third quarter due to a series of storms that hit the country over the July-September period, the Department of Agriculture said on Monday.Agriculture Assistant Secretary and spokesman Arnel de Mesa told reporters that output remained constrained by the impact of the El Niño weather pattern earlier this year and the typhoons that followed the end of a dry spell.
2, the damage to rice farms from Kristine was said to have topped P4 billion, with the production loss of some 516,438 metric tons of palay, or unhusked rice, said to be equivalent to 2.5 percent of the production target for this year.The DA earlier said that palay output could reach 20.44 million MT this year, slightly higher than 2023's record 20.06 million MT.Palay production from April to June came in at 3.85 million MT, down 9.5 percent compared to 4.25 million MT a year earlier.
Output Likely Lower In Q3 Says DA
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