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Carabao Situation Report, July-September 2023

As of 30 September 2023, the total carabao inventory was estimated at 2.74 million heads. This indicates a decline of 1.8 percent from its previous year’s same period count of 2.79 million heads. About 99.3 percent of the country’s carabao population came from smallhold farms, while the remaining 0…

Carabao Situation Report, April to June 2023

As of 30 June 2023, the total carabao inventory was estimated at 2.73 million heads. This indicates a decline of -1.2 percent from its previous year’s same period count of 2.77 million heads. About 99.1 percent of the country’s carabao population came from smallhold farms, while the remaining 0.8…

Carabao Situation Report, January to March 2023

As of 31 March 2023, the total carabao inventory was estimated at 2,769.10 thousand heads, which indicates a decrease of -0.1 percent compared with the previous year’s same period count of 2,771.45 thousand heads. About 99.2 percent of the country’s carabao population came from smallhold farms,…

Carabao Situation Report, October-December 2022

As of 31 December 2022, the total carabao inventory contracted to 2,770.46 thousand heads, from 2,774.47 thousand heads stocks in the same period of the previous year. Decrease in carabao stocks were noted in smallhold farms at -0.2 percent. However, stocks in semi-commercial and commercial farms…

Carabao Situation Report, July-September 2022

Total carabao inventory as of 30 September 2022 was estimated at 2.78 million heads. Of the total carabao inventory, smallhold farms accounted for 99.1 percent, while the remaining comprised the semi-commercial farms and commercial farms at 0.7 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively. (Figure 2)

Carabao Situation Report, April-June 2022

As of 30 June 2022, the total carabao inventory reached 2.74 million heads. This was -3.7 percent lower than the previous year’s same period count of 2.85 million heads. Carabao population in both backyard farms and commercial farms diminished by -3.5 percent and -50.0 percent, respectively. Of the…

Carabao Situation Report, January-March 2022

As of 31 March 2022, the country’s carabao inventory was estimated at About of the total carabao population was recorded in Bicol Region, followed by Western Visayas with share and Central Luzon with share. These accounted for of the country’s total carabao inventory. (Figure 2)

Carabao Situation Report, October-December 2021

As of 01 January 2022, the total carabao inventory was estimated at 2.82 million heads. This was -0.9 percent lower compared with the previous year’s same period population of 2.85 million heads. Inventory of carabao in both backyard farms and commercial farms contracted by -1.0 percent and -0.2…

Carabao Situation Report, July-September 2021

In backyard farms, the country’s carabao inventory as of 01 October 2021 was registered at 2.84 million heads. About 29.6 percent of the country’s carabao population were recorded in Bicol Region, Western Visayas, and Central Luzon. (Figure 2)

Carabao Situation Report, April-June 2021

As of 01 July 2021, the total carabao inventory in the country was registered at 2.85 million heads. This was -1.8 percent lower than the previous year’s same period stocks of 2.90 million heads. Carabao population in both backyard farms and commercial farms contracted by -1.7 percent and -7.1…

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Annual Livestock and Poultry Situation Reports

Contact Information

Technical Inquiries:

Precious S. Jacinto
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-in-Charge
Livestock and Poultry Statistics Division
Economic Sector Statistics Service
(632) 8376-2013
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p.jacinto@psa.gov.ph

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Ms. Maria Belen B. Pecson
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