Major Non-Food and Industrial Crops Quarterly Bulletin, January-March 2019
January 2019 to March 2019
Tobacco
- For the first quarter of
2019, the total tobacco production dropped to12.78 thousand metric tons or3.3 percent lower from previous year’s13.21 thousand metric tons. - Ilocos Region remained the top producer this quarter, with
86.8 percent share to the country’s total production of tobacco. - Virginia tobacco was the most produced variety, accounting for
95.3 percent of the total. Native and other variety of tobacco shared only2.5 percent and2.2 percent to total, respectively.
