The seasonally adjusted palay production in the third quarter of 2022 was recorded at 5.09 million metric tons. This registered an increase of 2.5 percent or 126.48 thousand metric tons from the previous quarter’s level of 4.96 million metric tons.

PRODUCTION:In the first quarter of 2022, the seasonally adjusted palay production decreased by -0.7 percent quarter-on-quarter. Production was down to 4.87 million metric tons from 4.91 million metric tons in the fourth quarter of 2021. (Table 1)

The Seasonally adjusted palay production for the third quarter of 2021 was 5,021 thousand metric tons, 4.3 percent above the 4,985 thousand metric tons of the preceding quarter's output.

Year on year, this quarter's performance when diseasonalized was higher by 256 thousand metric tons or 5.2 percent compared to the previous year's level of 4,945 thousand metric tons. (Figure 1 and Table 1)