Total chicken egg production from October to December 2022 was estimated at 174.99 thousand metric tons. This was 0.2 percent higher than the previous year’s same quarter output of 174.58 thousand metric tons. (Figure 1)

The top five regions with the highest volume of chicken egg production during the quarter were the following:
a. CALABARZON, 50.93 thousand metric tons;
b. Central Luzon, 32.87 thousand metric tons;
c. Central Visayas, 19.51 thousand metric tons;
d. Northern Mindanao, 19.16 thousand metric tons; and
e. Davao Region, 9.09 thousand metric tons.

These regions accounted for 75.1 percent of the country’s total chicken egg production during the quarter.

In comparison to their output in the same quarter of 2021, 10 regions posted increases in production during the quarter. In terms of level, Northern Mindanao posted the highest annual increase of 1.84 thousand metric tons, from 17.32 thousand metric tons in the same period of the previous year to 19.16 thousand metric tonsthis quarter.

As of 31 December 2022, the total chicken laying flock population increased to 68.20 million birds, from 65.04 million birds in the same period of the previous year. Layer chicken and native/improved chicken inventory grew by 4.9 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively. Of the total laying flock, layer chicken shared 66.8 percent as of 31 December 2022, while the remaining 33.2 percent were native/improved chicken. (Figure 2)

CALABARZON recorded the highest laying flock population of 16.75 million birds during the period. This was followed by Central Luzon and Northern Mindanao with corresponding inventories of 10.81 million birds and 7.85 million birds. These three regions shared 52.0 percent to the country’s total chicken laying flock population.

The average farmgate price of chicken egg was quoted at PhP 6.30 per piece for this quarter, 18.3 percent higher than the previous year’s same quarter price of PhP 5.32 per piece. (Figure 4)

During the reference quarter, the highest farmgate price was recorded in December at PhP 6.36 per piece, while the lowest was observed in October at PhP 6.22 per piece.

DIVINA GRACIA L. DEL PRADO, Ph. D.
(Assistant National Statistician)
Officer-in-Charge, Deputy National Statistician
Sectoral Statistics Office