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February 6, 2018
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SAN JOSE, Antique –Rice production in Antique increased 6.6 percent, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
PSA records showed that the province’s rice production in 2017 – 293,098 metric tons – is higher compared to 2016’s 274,929 metric tons.
Antique’s production accounted for 13.1 percent in Western Visayas’ total rice production last year, which amounted to 2.2 million metric tons.
Antique’s rice yield per hectare also increased 2.2 percent from 3.57metric tons in 2016 to 3.65 metric tons in 2017.
Of Antique’s total production in 2017, 62.2 percent (182,215 metric tons) were from irrigated farmlands while 37.8 percent (110,883 metric tons), from rain-fed farms.
Corn production in Antique also went up 37.2 percent, from 4,533 metric tons in 2016 to 6,219 metric tons in 2017.
Moreover, corn production per hectare yield rose 22.6 percent, from 3 metric tons in 2016 to 3.7 metric tons in 2017.
The province’s corn production accounted for 2.1 percent of the region’s total production, which amounted to 301,286 metric tons.
Yellow corn production (5,710 metric tons) is higher than white corn production (509 metric tons), the PSA records further showed.
But both corn types rose in production from 2016 to 2017, the records added.
White corn is used primarily for human consumption while yellow corn is used as feed grains.
The data were derived fromthe quarterly Palay and Corn Production Survey of the PSA, according to Provincial Statistics Officer Jesus Escote. (PIA/PN)
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