Total duck production from October to December 2022 was estimated at 7.08 thousand metric tons, liveweight. This was higher by 4.3 percent than the previous year’s same quarter output of 6.79 thousand metric tons, liveweight, and an improvement from the -14.2 percent reduction in the same period of 2021. (Figure 1)

The top five regions with the highest volume of duck production at liveweight during the period were the following:
a. Central Luzon, 2.14 thousand metric tons;
b. SOCCSKSARGEN, 1.19 thousand metric tons;
c. Western Visayas, 0.72 thousand metric tons;
d. Cagayan Valley, 0.58 thousand metric tons; and
e. Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, 0.35 thousand metric tons.

These regions accounted for 70.3 percent share to the country’s total duck production.

In comparison to their output in the same quarter of 2021, 10 regions registered increases in production during the quarter. In terms of level, Central Luzon recorded the highest increase of 0.21 thousand metric tons, from 1.94 thousand metric tons in the same quarter of the previous year to 2.14 thousand metric tons this fourth quarter of 2022.

As of 31 December 2022, the total duck inventory reached 13.43 million birds. This was 11.9 percent higher compared with the previous year’s same period count of 12.00 million birds. Stocks in smallhold and semi-commercial farms grew by 9.7 percent and 30.2 percent, respectively. On the other hand, stocks in commercial farms declined by -51.1 percent relative to the same period of the previous year’s record. As of 31 December 2022, the share of semi-commercial farms to the total duck inventory grew to 28.0 percent from the 24.1 percent share in the same period of the previous year. However, the share of smallhold and commercial farms both reduced to 70.0 percent and 2.0 percent shares, respectively. (Figure 2)

Central Luzon recorded the highest duck population of 4.76 million birds as of 31 December 2022. This was followed by SOCCSKSARGEN and Cagayan Valley with corresponding inventories of 1.43 million birds and 1.33 million birds. These three regions shared 56.1 percent to the country’s total duck population.

The average farmgate price of duck for meat was quoted at PhP 180.44 per kilogram, liveweight during the reference quarter. This was -5.1 percent lower than the previous year’s same quarter quotation of PhP 190.17 per kilogram, liveweight. (Figure 4)

During the reference quarter, the highest farmgate price was recorded in December at PhP 182.87 per kilogram, liveweight, while the lowest was quoted in October at PhP 175.89 per kilogram, liveweight.

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