RICE

As of 01 January 2025, the country's total rice stocks inventory was estimated at 2.16 million metric tons. This indicates an annual increase of 6.4 percent from the 2.03 million metric tons inventory in the same period of the previous year.

Month-on-month, the volume of rice stocks inventory recorded a decrement of 15.7 percent from the previous month's inventory of 2.56 million metric tons. (Figure 1 and Table 1)

Figure 1. Inventory of Rice Stocks, Philippines  
January 2024, December 2024^r, and January 2025^p

This month's rice stocks inventories registered annual increases from the NFA depositories by 485.1 percent and from the households by 5.4 percent. On the other hand, an annual decrease was noted from the commercial sector by 16.5 percent.

In comparison to the December 2024 rice stocks levels, increments were noted from the NFA depositories by 97.7 percent, and in the households by 17.4 percent. Meanwhile, rice stocks inventory from the commercial sector decreased by 46.1 percent.

Of this month's total rice stocks, 48.9 percent were from the households, 37.9 percent were from the commercial sector, and 13.2 percent were from the NFA depositories.  (Table 1)

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

CORN

As of 01 January 2025, the total corn stocks inventory of the country reached 328.40 thousand metric tons. This indicates an annual decrease of 45.0 percent from the 597.62 thousand metric tons inventory in the same period of 2024.

Corn stocks inventory exhibited a month-on-month decrease of 40.1 percent relative to its previous month's inventory level of 548.31 thousand metric tons. (Figure 2 and Table 2)

Figure 2. Inventory of Corn Stocks, Philippines  
January 2024, December 2024^r, and January 2025^p

From the same month of the previous year's level, corn stocks inventory recorded annual decreases from the commercial sector by 49.5 percent and from the households by 2.7 percent.

Relative to the inventory level in December 2024, decreases in the volume of corn stocks were noted from the commercial sector by 43.4 percent and from the households by 16.2 percent.  

About 83.1 percent of this month's total corn stocks inventory were from the commercial sector, while the remaining 16.9 percent were from the households. (Table 2)

Table 2. Level and Percent Change of Corn Stocks by Sector, Philippines   
January 2024, December 2024^r, and January 2025^p

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