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Preliminary figures for 2022 reported about a quarter of employed Filipinos work in the agricultural sector which is made up of four sub-sectors: farming, fisheries, livestock, and forestry.
Agriculture in the Philippines is a major sector of the economy, ranking third among the sectors in 2022 behind only Services and Industry. Its outputs include staples like rice and corn, but also export crops such as coffee, cavendish banana, pineapple and pineapple products, coconut, sugar, and mango. [1]
From 2010 to 2019, the poultry industry had been the key driver of growth in agriculture, while crops have stagnated (Table 1). A prominent feature of crop farming in the country from the 1960s to 2010s is the dominance of the same five traditional crops: palay, corn, coconut, sugarcane, and banana. Meanwhile, fisheries further
Philippine agriculture rises to the challenges of the times 2020 has officially become the most challenging year for the Philippine agriculture sector. Massive stresses faced the country's farmers and fishers—from volcanic eruption, infectious animal diseases, crop pest infestations, a viral pandemic that resulted in a health crisis, to
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Sep 9, 2020 · MANILA, September 9, 2020— Transforming Philippine agriculture into a dynamic, high-growth sector is essential for the country to speed up recovery, poverty reduction and inclusive growth, according to the latest report released by the World Bank.
Sep 9, 2020 · The Philippines’ agriculture sector has shown some resilience in the face of COVID-19. Despite the difficulties brought about by the pandemic, the agriculture and fisheries sector grew by 1.6 percent in the second quarter of the year. It’s the only sector to grow during the period.
Agriculture is practiced by roughly five million farmers in the Philippines, the large majority of whom operate at the subsistence, small-scale level (i.e., less than 7 Agriculture1is a key economic sector in the Philippines, contributing to approximately 12% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) [55] and employing around 32% of the econ...
