SPECIAL RELEASE

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO PALAY SITUATION REPORT,
FOURTH QUARTER 2024

Date of Release: 03 April 2025
Reference No.: P51-SR2025-20

PALAY

The province of Occidental Mindoro's total palay production in the fourth quarter of 2024 was recorded at 210,408.42 metric tons. This indicates an annual increment of 1.67 percent from 206,954.76 thousand metric tons volume of production in the same period of the previous year. The irrigated and rainfed palay production exhibited an increment of 1.14 percent and 2.89 percent respectively. (Table 1 and Figure 1)

In terms of area harvested, the total area harvested during October to December 2024 in the province of Occidental Mindoro was 52,239.70 hectares. This exhibits an annual increment of 5.60 percent relative to the same period of the previous year. The harvested area in irrigated and rainfed increased by 6.96 percent and 2.89 percent respectively. (Table 2 and Figure 2)

Relative to the same period of the previous year’s yield record of 4.18 metric tons per hectare, the October to December 2024 average yield of 4.03 metric tons per hectare in the province exhibited a decline of 3.73 percent. (Figure 3 and Table 3)

MARIBEL L. BERNARDO, PhD

Chief Statistical Specialist

TECHNICAL NOTES

Palay Production Survey (PPS) is a major agricultural survey conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). This generates estimates on palay 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 palay/rice. 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 actual harvests during the reference period. It includes those harvested but damaged, stolen, given away, consumed, given as harvesters’ and threshers’ shares, reserved, etc. Palay production from seed growers which are intended for seed purposes is excluded from the survey.

Two ecosystem types in palay production:
1.    Irrigated ecosystem refers to an area with irrigation facilities supplying water through gravity, force/power, pump, and other artificial means.
2.    Palay grown on a rainfed ecosystem has dikes that retain water and solely dependent upon rainfall for its water supply.

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.