Most of the major Filipino vegetables and root crops saw higher output in Q4 2022. Among the country’s top nine vegetable and root crops that posted higher production are potato, eggplant, tomato, onion, sweet potato and cassava.
Onions recorded the highest growth during the quarter at 23.3 percent output to 10,578.17 metric tons (MT), with native onions cornering 80.8 percent of the total production. Ilocos Region was the major producer of onion during the quarter with 9,561.5 MT or 90.4 percent of the total.
Potato production also grew by 5.4 percent to 58,997.35 MT. Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) was the top potato producer cornering 86.4 percent of the total with 50,982.82 MT. Production of sweet potato increased by 3.4 percent to 141,314.66 MT. Zamboanga Peninsula was the leading producer of sweet potato with 19,936.08 MT or 14.1 percent of the total.
Tomato registered a 0.9 percent increase to 25,372.93 MT. Northern Mindanao was the top tomato producer with 14,543.45 MT, which is about 57.3 percent of the total production during the quarter. Cassava production inched up by 0.6 percent to 805,107.25 MT. Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) posted the largest production with 488,001.40 MT, contributing 60.6 percent to the total.
Source: philstar.com
