MANILA — The Philippines’ first-quarter production of chicken egg grew for the third year in a row, latest Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data showed.
PSA data released last week showed that nationwide chicken egg production in the first quarter of 2018 rose 7.42 percent to 130,549 metric tons (MT) from 2017’s 121,535 MT, which was also higher than 2016’s 117,842 MT for the same period.
Wilma Guillen, officer-in-charge of PSA’s Social Sector Statistics Service, said egg production from layer chicken comprised 84.03 percent of the total egg production in the first quarter of 2018. The rest were from native chicken.
This year’s January-March output increase was on the back of higher egg production in CALABARZON region, which contributed 39,332 MT and in Central Luzon, with 27,533 MT.
The two regions alone accounted for more than half of the country’s total first-quarter production this year.
Production in regions nationwide was higher this year, except in Western Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Davao, and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Output in those four regions dropped 5.06 percent, 10.59 percent, 14 percent and 3.54 percent, respectively, from 2017 levels.
For the period, the Cordillera Administrative Region yielded 906 MT; Ilocos, 4,768 MT; Cagayan Valley, 3,366 MT; Mimaropa, 1,356 MT; Bicol, 3,554 MT; Western Visayas, 8,042 MT; Central Visayas, 12,988 MT; Eastern Visayas, 904 MT; Zamboanga Peninsula, 2,870 MT; Northern Mindanao, 10,959 MT; Davao, 5,834 MT; Soccsksargen, 5,783 MT; Caraga, 1,672 MT; and ARMM, 682 MT. (Catherine Teves/PNA)
