Rice production to hit 20MMT in 2023

The country’s rice production across all ecosystems is expected to hit 20 million metric tons, a report tracking the three quarters’ data of the Philippine Statistics showed.

Compared to the output of 19.756 MMT harvested from 4, 804,591 hectares in 2022, this year’s rice production would hit 20.143 million MT reaped from 4,816,933 hectares or up by 386,193 metric tons. The areas planted to rice slightly increased by 12,342 hectares.

The production from Irrigated areas rose from 14,938,689 MT in 2022 to 15,328,462 MT in 2023, up by 389,733 MT. 

Production in rainfed areas slightly dropped from 4,818,704 MT in 2022 to 4,814,124 MT or by 3,579 MT owing mainly to a decline in harvest area from 1,463,680 in 2022 to 1,431,95 hectares in 2023 or a drop of 31,727 hectares.

Palay yields for both irrigated and rainfed areas slightly rose from 4.47 tons per hectare in 2022 to 4.53 MT/ha. in 2023 or a change of 0.06 tons per hectare for irrigated areas and for rainfed areas, yield was up from 3.29 tons per hectare in 2022 to 3.36 tons per hectare in 2023 or a change of 0.07 tons per hectare. RDLC