Major Non-Food and Industrial Crops Quarterly Bulletin, October-December 2022
October 2022 to December 2022
Cacao
- Production of cacao (dried beans with pulp) for this quarter increased from
3.08 thousand metric tons in the same period of the previous year to its current level of3.16 thousand metric tons, which recorded a growth of2.6 percent. - Davao region remained the major producer of cacao with
2.53 thousand metric tons or80.2 percent of the country’s total cacao production for this quarter. - From July to December 2022, the area planted with cacao was
32.22 thousand hectares, or went up by2.4 percent compared with the same period of last year’s area planted of31.64 thousand hectares.
