Major Non-Food and Industrial Crops Quarterly Bulletin, July-September 2019

July 2019 to September 2019

Tobacco

Tobacco production from July to September 2019 increased by 12.8 percent, from 1.16 thousand metric tons in the same quarter of 2018 to 1.30 thousand metric tons this quarter.
Northern Mindanao produced 99.1 percent of the total tobacco production for this quarter. The remaining 0.9 percent was the combined output of the other six tobacco-producing regions.
Native tobacco variety was produced more at 59.2 percent of the total production than Virginia tobacco at 40.8 percent, while there was no production of Burley tobacco for this quarter.