Major Fruit Crops Quarterly Bulletin, January-March 2017
May 2017
Mango
- During the January-March 2017 period, production of mango dropped by 7.8 percent, from 117.00 thousand metric tons in 2016 to 107.83 thousand metric tons this year. The decrease could be attributed to:
- the incidence of capsid bug and cecid fly in Zambales that resulted to poor quality of fruits and premature fruit drops; and
- the decrease in yield in Nueva Ecija and Pangasinan due to rainshowers during flowering.
- the incidence of capsid bug and cecid fly in Zambales that resulted to poor quality of fruits and premature fruit drops; and
- Ilocos Region topped all the mango producing regions with 59.99 thousand metric tons contributing 55.6 percent to the national total. Central Luzon ranked second with 18.4 percent share and Western Visayas with 5.8 percent.
- Carabao mango comprised 81.8 percent of the total mango output this quarter.
