RICE

As of 01 April 2025, the country's total rice stocks inventory was estimated at 2.34 million metric tons. This indicates an annual increase of 26.2 percent from the 1.86 million metric tons inventory in the same period of the previous year.

Month-on-month, the volume of rice stocks inventory recorded an increment of 45.3 percent from the previous month's inventory of 1.61 million metric tons. (Figure 1 and Table 1)

Figure 1. Inventory of Rice Stocks, Philippines 
April 2024, March 2025^r, and April 2025^p

This month's rice stocks inventories registered annual increases from the NFA depositories by 733.6 percent and from the households by 25.2 percent. On the other hand, an annual decrease was noted from the households by 6.4 percent.

In comparison to the March 2025 rice stocks levels, increments were noted from the commercial sector by 55.5 percent, from the households by 49.8 percent, and from the NFA depositories by 15.5 percent.  

Of this month's total rice stocks, 50.2 percent were from the households, 35.1 percent were from the commercial sector, and 14.8 percent were from the NFA depositories. (Table 1)

Table 1. Level and Percent Change of Rice Stocks by Sector, Philippines 
April 2024, March 2025^r, and April 2025^p

CORN

As of 01 April 2025, the total corn stocks inventory of the country reached 583.61 thousand metric tons. This indicates an annual decrease of 3.1 percent from the 602.14 thousand metric tons inventory in the same period of 2024.

Corn stocks inventory exhibited a month-on-month increase of 58.4 percent relative to its previous month's inventory level of 368.51 thousand metric tons. (Figure 2 and Table 2)

Figure 2. Inventory of Corn Stocks, Philippines 
April 2024, March 2025, and April 2025^p

From the same month of the previous year's level, corn stocks inventory from the commercial sector recorded an annual decrease of 10.1 percent. On the other hand, an annual increase of 36.1 percent was noted from the households.

Relative to the inventory level in March 2025 the volume of corn stocks from the decreased from the households by 136.2 percent and from the commercial sector by 45.3 percent.

About 78.6 percent of this month's total corn stocks inventory were from the commercial sector, while the remaining 21.4 percent were from the households. (Table 2)

Table 2. Level and Percent Change of Corn Stocks by Sector, Philippines  
April 2024, March 2025, and April 2025^p

Table 3. Rice and Corn Stocks Inventories with Measures of Precision 
Philippines, April 2025^p

DIVINA GRACIA L. DEL PRADO, PhD 
Assistant Secretary 
Deputy National Statistician 
Sectoral Statistics Office