ISSN 2094-6201

Major Fruit Crops

Quarterly Bulletin
Volume 13 No. 2 Quezon City, Philippines

April-June 2019

Republic of the Philippines

Philippine Statistics Authority
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 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

HIS EXCELLENCY
PRESIDENT RODRIGO R. DUTERTE

PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY

CLAIRE DENNIS S. MAPA, Ph.D.

Undersecretary
National Statistician and Civil Registrar General

ROSALINDA P. BAUTISTA
Assistant Secretary
Deputy National Statistician
Sectoral Statistics Office

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 FOREWORD

The Major Fruit Crops Quarterly Bulletin provides updates on production of

banana, calamansi, mango, and pineapple. These crops are highlighted in the
report on the Performance of Agriculture that the PSA releases quarterly.

This second quarter 2019 issue of the Bulletin presents the final estimates of
production from January to March 2019 and the preliminary estimates from
April to June 2019. It also contains the January to June 2019 preliminary
estimates on area planted and number of bearing trees/hills. The main source
of data is the Crops Production Survey (CrPS) conducted quarterly by PSA.

CLAIRE DENNIS S. MAPA, Ph.D.

Undersecretary
National Statistician and Civil Registrar General

Quezon City, Philippines

August 2019

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword ii
Background vi
Highlights
Banana 2
Calamansi 4
Mango 6
Pineapple 8

LIST OF TABLES
Table Page
Title
No. No.

1 Volume of Production for Selected Fruit Crops, Philippines

January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p 12
2 Volume of Production for Banana by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p 13
3 Volume of Production for Calamansi by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p 14
4 Volume of Production for Mango by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p 15
5 Volume of Production for Pineapple by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p 16
6 Area Planted and Number of Bearing Trees/Hills for
Selected Crops, Philippines, January-June: 2018-2019p 17
p
- Preliminary Estimate

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 LIST OF FIGURES
Figure No. Title Page No.

1 Banana Production by Region, April-June: 2019p 1

2 Distribution of Banana Production by Region
April-June: 2019p 2
3 Distribution of Banana Production by Variety, Philippines
April-June: 2019p 2
4 Calamansi Production by Region, April-June: 2019p 3
5 Distribution of Calamansi Production by Region
April-June: 2019p 4
6 Mango Production by Region, April-June: 2019p 5
7 Distribution of Mango Production by Region
April-June: 2019p 6
8 Distribution of Mango Production by Variety, Philippines
April-June: 2019p 6
9 Pineapple Production by Region, April-June: 2019p 7
10 Distribution of Pineapple Production by Region
April-June: 2019p 8
p
- Preliminary Estimate

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 BACKGROUND1

Scope and Coverage

The Crops Production Survey (CrPS) is for all crops other than palay and corn.
Around 282 crops are covered by this survey. For this bulletin, information on
four major fruit crops are reported. These fruit crops are banana, calamansi,
mango and pineapple.

Estimates of production, area planted/harvested, and number of bearing

trees/hills are generated from the CrPS which has four survey rounds in a year,
that is, February, May, August, and November.

Crops statistics covers all regions excluding National Capital Region (NCR).

Sampling Methodology

A non-probability survey is employed for the CrPS. A “5 by 5” design was used

in the selection of samples, with the province as survey domain. The top five
producing municipalities of a certain crop are chosen from each province. From
each of these municipalities, five sample farmers are selected as respondents.
In this two-stage design, municipality serves as the primary sampling unit while
farmer-producer is the secondary sampling unit.

Data Collection

For CrPS, data collection is conducted quarterly during the last 10 days of the
middle month of the quarter. It gathers data on production, area
planted/harvested and number of bearing trees/hills.

Concepts and Definitions

Crop production refers to the quantity produced and actually harvested for a
particular crop during the reference period. It includes those harvested but
damaged, stolen, given away, consumed, given as harvester’s share, reserved,
etc. Excluded are those produced but not harvested due to low price, lack of
demand and force majeure or fortuitous events, etc.

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Source: Excerpts from Crops Statistics of the Philippines 2012-2016; ISSN-2012-0487
https://psa.gov.ph/content/crops-statistics-philippines-national-and-regional

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Area planted refers to the actual physical area planted. This generally applies
to area reported for permanent crops and multi-harvest temporary crops. On
the other hand, area harvested refers to the actual area from which harvests
are realized. This excludes crop area which were totally damaged. It may be
smaller than the area planted. In crops statistics, this applies to temporary
crops.

Bearing trees/hills refers to trees/hills where harvesting has been made in the
past and may or may not have borne fruits (productive) during the reference
period due to cyclical production pattern of the crop. Hills applies to banana.

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 FIGURE 1 Banana Production by Region, April-June: 2019p

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 HIGHLIGHTS

Banana

 For the second quarter of 2019, banana production was estimated at 2.26 million
metric tons. It was 4.1 percent lower than the 2.36 million metric tons produced
during the same period of 2018.

 Davao Region recorded the highest share of 39.8 percent of total banana
production, followed by Northern Mindanao and SOCCSKSARGEN with
18.5 percent and 12.1 percent, respectively (Figure 2).

 Cavendish variety with 1.21 million metric tons accounted for 53.6 percent of the
country’s total banana production. Saba variety shared 27.8 percent and Lakatan,
9.6 percent (Table 1).

Others
9.0%

Other Regions Lakatan

29.5% Region XI 9.6%
(Davao Region)
39.8%

Cavendish
53.6%

Saba
27.8%
Region XII Region X
(SOCCSKSARGEN) (Northern
12.1% Mindanao)
18.5%

FIGURE 2 Distribution of Banana Production FIGURE 3 Distribution of Banana Production

by Region, April-June: 2019p by Variety, Philippines, April-June: 2019p

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 FIGURE 4 Calamansi Production by Region, April-June: 2019p

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Calamansi

 In April to June 2019, the country produced 18.02 thousand metric tons of
calamansi, 2.0 percent lower than the 18.39 thousand metric tons recorded during
the same period of 2018.

 MIMAROPA region remained the top producer of calamansi with 38.9 percent
share to the total national production. Zamboanga Peninsula ranked second with
13.2 percent share and Central Luzon with 10.9 percent (Figure 5).

MIMAROPA
Other Regions Region
37.0% 38.9%

Region IX
Region III (Zamboanga
(Central Luzon) Peninsula)
10.9% 13.2%
FIGURE 5 Distribution of Calamansi Production
by Region, April-June: 2019p

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 FIGURE 6 Mango Production by Region, April-June: 2019p

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 Mango

 During the period April to June 2019, mango production was recorded at
556.88 thousand metric tons. It was 5.4 percent higher than the 2018 level of
528.49 thousand metric tons.

 The highest producer of mango during the period was Ilocos Region, contributing
22.6 percent to the total national production. Zamboanga Peninsula and Central
Visayas followed with 10.5 percent and 9.7 percent, respectively (Figure 7).

 Carabao mango recorded the highest output of 445.78 thousand metric tons,
representing 80.1 percent of the total mango production this period (Table 1).

Region I (Ilocos Others

Region) 15.4%
22.6%
Piko
4.5%

Region IX
(Zamboanga
Peninsula)
Other Regions 10.5%
57.3%

Region VII
(Central Carabao
Visayas) 80.1%
9.7%

FIGURE 7 Distribution of Mango Production FIGURE 8 Distribution of Mango Production

by Region, April-June: 2019p by Variety, Philippines, April-June: 2019p

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 FIGURE 9 Pineapple Production by Region, April-June: 2019p

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Pineapple

 Pineapple production for the period April to June 2019 reached 702.25 thousand
metric tons. It was 0.7 percent higher than the 697.45 thousand metric tons
produced during the same period of 2018.

 Half of the total national production of pineapple was from Northern Mindanao at
352.73 thousand metric tons. The other top producing regions were
SOCCSKSARGEN with 25.9 percent and Bicol Region with 8.3 percent (Table 5).

Other Regions
15.5%

Region V (Bicol
Region)
8.3% Region X
(Northern
Mindanao)
50.2%
Region XII
(SOCCSKSARGEN)
25.9%

FIGURE 10 Distribution of Pineapple Production

by Region, April-June: 2019p

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STATISTICAL TABLES
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TABLE 1 Volume of Production for Selected Fruit Crops, Philippines
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p
(In metric tons)

(Details may not add up to total due to rounding)

Production Percent
CROP January-March April-June Change
2018 2019 2018 2019p Jan-Mar Apr-Jun

Banana 2,143,874 2,114,497 2,358,794 2,260,965 (1.4) (4.1)

Cavendish 1,193,894 1,195,891 1,220,111 1,211,405 0.2 (0.7)
55.7% 56.6% 51.7% 53.6%
Lakatan 192,988 188,038 232,196 216,679 (2.6) (6.7)
9.0% 8.9% 9.8% 9.6%
Saba 549,664 528,676 685,020 628,491 (3.8) (8.3)
25.6% 25.0% 29.0% 27.8%
Other banana 207,328 201,891 221,466 204,390 (2.6) (7.7)
9.7% 9.5% 9.4% 9.0%
Calamansi 14,857 14,948 18,387 18,019 0.6 (2.0)
Mango 97,697 94,916 528,492 556,877 (2.8) 5.4
Carabao 79,068 77,251 423,355 445,780 (2.3) 5.3
80.9% 81.4% 80.1% 80.1%
Other mango 18,629 17,665 105,137 111,097 (5.2) 5.7
19.1% 18.6% 19.9% 19.9%
Pineapple 621,642 621,374 697,451 702,245 (0.04) 0.7

p-Preliminary

Italicized numbers are the percent share of varieties to the total fruit production estimates

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TABLE 2 Volume of Production for Banana by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p
(In metric tons)

(Details may not add up to total due to rounding)

p-Preliminary

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TABLE 3 Volume of Production for Calamansi by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p
(In metric tons)

(Details may not add up to total due to rounding)

p-Preliminary

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TABLE 4 Volume of Production for Mango by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p
(In metric tons)

(Details may not add up to total due to rounding)

p-Preliminary

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TABLE 5 Volume of Production for Pineapple by Region
January-March: 2018-2019 and April-June: 2018-2019p
(In metric tons)

(Details may not add up to total due to rounding)

Production Percent
Region January-March April-June Change
2018 2019 2018 2019p Jan-Mar Apr-Jun

PHILIPPINES 621,642 621,374 697,451 702,245 (0.04) 0.7

Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) 75 72 403 370 (4.5) (8.1)

Region I (Ilocos Region) 14 12 134 140 (8.0) 4.3
Region II (Cagayan Valley) 497 502 22,770 21,319 1.1 (6.4)
Region III (Central Luzon) 26 23 1,203 1,378 (8.8) 14.6
Region IV-A (CALABARZON) 8,709 9,181 67,489 56,429 5.4 (16.4)
MIMAROPA Region 124 125 356 331 1.3 (7.0)
Region V (Bicol Region) 39,925 36,464 44,153 58,618 (8.7) 32.8
Region VI (Western Visayas) 2,183 1,999 6,927 6,659 (8.4) (3.9)
Region VII (Central Visayas) 1,134 2,200 2,925 4,073 94.0 39.3
Region VIII (Eastern Visayas) 1,313 1,395 4,846 4,730 6.2 (2.4)
Region IX (Zamboanga Peninsula) 120 122 272 256 1.4 (5.9)
Region X (Northern Mindanao) 343,885 346,445 353,051 352,733 0.7 (0.1)
Region XI (Davao Region) 6,711 6,791 11,676 11,670 1.2 (0.05)
Region XII (SOCCSKSARGEN) 216,705 215,808 179,600 181,835 (0.4) 1.2
Region XIII (Caraga) 91 105 1,348 1,399 15.1 3.8
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) 132 129 300 305 (1.8) 1.7
p-Preliminary

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TABLE 6 Area Planted and Number of Bearing Trees/Hills for
Selected Crops April-June: 2018-2019p

(Details may not add up to total due to rounding)

January-June Percent
Selected Crops
2018 2019P Change

Area Planted (Ha)

Banana 445,247 447,374 0.5
Cavendish 88,009 87,950 (0.1)
Lakatan 54,738 56,948 4.0
Saba 184,532 185,060 0.3
Other banana 117,969 117,416 (0.5)
Calamansi 19,717 19,640 (0.4)
Mango 185,194 186,695 0.8
Carabao 144,805 146,002 0.8
Other mango 40,389 40,693 0.8
Pineapple 63,943 63,904 (0.1)

Number of Bearing Trees/Hills

Banana 284,978,692 282,231,487 (1.0)
Cavendish 122,992,664 122,189,960 (0.7)
Lakatan 31,754,986 31,605,657 (0.5)
Saba 80,205,365 79,085,450 (1.4)
Other banana 50,025,677 49,350,420 (1.3)
Calamansi 8,304,031 8,331,255 0.3
Mango 9,460,132 9,533,361 0.8
Carabao 7,111,430 7,184,491 1.0
Other mango 2,348,702 2,348,871 0.01
Pineapple NA NA NA

p-Preliminary

NA-Not Applicable

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MAJOR FRUIT CROPS QUARTERLY BULLETIN

PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY

DIVINA GRACIA L. DEL PRADO

Assistant National Statistician
Economic Sector Statistics Service

CROPS STATISTICS DIVISION

ERMINA V. TEPORA
Chief Statistical Specialist

REYNALDO Q. VALLESTEROS JR.

Supervising Statistical Specialist

ROSALINA S. OLYMPIA
Statistical Specialist II

NICKO ANGELO E. ESPERANZA

Statistical Analyst

MA. CASANDRA LORINE G. ABEGONIA

Technical Staff
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