The country's rice stocks inventory as of 01 June 2022 reached 2,220.21 thousand metric tons. This was -12.3 percent lower compared with the previous year's level of 2,530.82 thousand metric tons. Relative to the May 2022 inventory level of 2,279.96 thousand metric tons, the current rice stocks inventory dropped by -2.6 percent.(Figure 1 and Table 1)

The total rice stocks inventory as of 01 April 2022 was recorded at 2,506.13 thousand metric tons. This registered an increase of 2.5 percent from the previous year’s level of 2,444.31 thousand metric tons. Furthermore, the rice stocks inventory level increased by 53.5 percent as compared with the previous month’s level of 1,632.51 thousand metric tons. (Figure 1 and Table 1)

A total of 1,609.25 thousand metric tons of rice stocks inventory was recorded as of 01 February 2022. This was lower by -26.6 percent compared with the inventory level in the same month of the previous year of 2,193.10 thousand metric tons.

Month-on-month, rice stocks inventory also dropped by -13.5 percent from its level of 1,859.45 thousand metric tons in the previous month. (Figure 1 and Table 1)