Area Planted/Harvested of Fruit Crops in Marinduque increased in 2022

Marinduque recorded a total of 979.69 hectares of area planted/harvested. From the figure of 973.58 hectares in the previous year, it climbed by 0.6 percent (Table 1). The increase was due to the area planted and harvested for banana and calamansi.

In 2022, banana had 406.04 hectares, 3.7 percent higher from 391.44 hectares in 2021(Table 1). Similarly, Calamansi increased by 8.2 percent from 18.48 hectares in 2021 to 20.00 hectares in 2022 (Table 1).

Number of Fruit Crops Bearing Trees/Hills in Marinduque increased by 1.5 percent in
2022

In 2022, the province registered a total of 119,312 fruit bearing trees/hills/vines. It showed an increase of 1.5 percent from 117,573 fruit bearing trees/hills/vines in 2021 (Table 2). The increase in fruit bearing trees/hills/vines was attributed to Banana and Papaya. Banana posted 1.9 percent increase in 2022 with 87,644 bearing hills compared to 86,041 bearing hills in 2021 (Table 2). Likewise, papaya reported 3,354 bearing trees in 2022, up by 3.8 percent from 3,230 bearing trees in 2021 (Table 2). 

TECHNICAL NOTES

Crops Production Survey (CrPS) is a quarterly survey which aims to generate basic production statistics for crops other than palay and corn at the national, regional and provincial levels. Twenty major crops under the Other Crops sub-sector are highlighted in the Value of Production in Philippine Agriculture and Fisheries. The Crops covers more than 280 crops sub-classified under three commodity groupings, namely: (1) Non-Food and Industrial Crops, (2) Fruit Crops, and (3) Vegetables and Root Crops.

Crop Production refers to the quantity produced and harvested for a particular crop during the reference period. It includes those measured but damaged, stolen, given away, consumed, given as harvester's share, and reserved.

Area Planted is the actual physical area planted measured in hectares. This generally applies to area reported for permanent crops and multi-harvest temporary crops.

Area Harvested is the actual area from which harvests are realized expressed in hectares. This excludes crop area which was damaged. It may be smaller than area planted.

Bearing Trees/Hills/Vines refer to the number of trees/hills/vines where harvesting has been made in the past and may or may not have borne fruits during the reference period due to cyclical production pattern of the crop. Hills apply for banana. Vines apply for grapes watermelon and the like

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(SGD)GEMMA N. OPIS
Chief Statistical Specialist

GNO /MBJSM