Major Non-Food and Industrial Crops Quarterly Bulletin, October-December 2022
October 2022 to December 2022
Sugarcane
- The production of sugarcane for this quarter was up to
6.68 million metric tons, or an increase of18.7 percent from the7.93 million metric tons production during the same quarter of the previous year. - Sugarcane for Centrifugal sugar, which is
99.3 percent of the total sugarcane production, contributed the most to the growth of total sugarcane production. The remaining0.7 percent was the collective shares of Ethanol, Panocha/Muscovado, Chewing, and Basi/Vinegar. - Western Visayas continued to be the leading producer of sugarcane with
5.92 million metric tons or74.6 percent of the total sugarcane production during the quarter. Northern Mindanao came next with11.6 percent share. - Sugarcane’s area harvested from July to December 2022 was recorded at
158.55 thousand hectares, which increased by19.2 percent from the area harvested of133.06 thousand hectares in the same period of 2021. Most of this area was intended for centrifugal sugar that contributed153.29 thousand hectares.
