SPECIAL RELEASE

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO CORN SITUATION REPORT,
FOURTH QUARTER 2024

Date of Release: 03 April 2025
Reference No.: P51-SR2025-33
 

October to December 2024 total corn production of 3,976.91 metric tons of the province exhibited a reduction of 12.88 percent relative to the same period of the previous year’s record of 4,564.92 metric tons. The white corn production exhibited substantial annual decrement of 51.04 percent and a decrease of 1.43 percent in yellow corn. (Table 1 and Figure 1)

The yellow corn production of 3,460.78 metric tons comprised 87.02 percent of the total production in the fourth quarter of 2024 while the white corn production of 516.13 metric tons comprised 12.98 percent. On the other hand, during the fourth quarter of 2023, yellow production of 3,510.84 metric tons comprised 76.91 percent of the total production while white corn production of 1,054.08 metric tons comprised 23.09 percent. (Figure 2)

Compared to the province’s recorded corn area of 1,344.20 hectares in the fourth quarter of 2023, the total area of 1,171.86 hectares in the same period of 2024 exhibited a decline of 172.34 hectares or 12.82 percent. The harvested area in yellow corn exhibited an annual increase of 0.84 percent while the harvested area in white corn exhibited a significant annual decrease of 35.72 percent. (Figure 3 and Table 2)

The recorded 3.39 metric tons per hectare average corn yield of Occidental Mindoro during October to December 2024 exhibited a decrement of 0.07 percent relative to the same period of the previous year’s record of 3.40 metric tons per hectare. (Figure 4 and Table 3)

MARIBEL L. BERNARDO, PhD

Chief Statistical Specialist

TECHNICAL NOTES

Corn Production Survey (CPS) is a major agricultural survey conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). This generates estimates on corn production, area, yield, and other production-related data such as usage of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides; source of irrigation water and adequacy; farm household disposition of production, etc. that serve as inputs for policymaking and programs on corn. Specifically, the production data generated from the survey are direct inputs to the Value of Production in Philippine Agriculture and Fisheries and to the computation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), accordingly.

Definition of Terms

Production refers to quantity produced and actually harvested during the reference period. It includes those harvested but damaged, stolen, given away, consumed, given as harvesters’ and threshers’ shares, reserved, etc.

Two corn types in corn production:
1.    White corn is a type of corn used primarily for human consumption.
2.    Yellow corn is generally used for feed grains. It includes all types of corn other than white corn.

Metric Tons is equivalent to 1,000 kilograms.

Reference quarter/period refers to the period of time during which palay harvesting occurs. (1st Quarter – January to March, 2nd Quarter – April to June, 3rd Quarter – July to September, 4th Quarter – October to December)

Area harvested refers to the actual area from which harvests are realized during the reference quarter (4th Quarter – October to December). This excludes areas that were totally damaged.

Yield is an indicator of production derived by dividing the total production by the area harvested.