Major Vegetables and Root Crops Quarterly Bulletin, January - March 2018
January 2018 to March 2018
Bermuda Onion (Red Creole and Yellow Granex)
- The January to March 2018 production of bermuda onion dropped by
4.4 percent , from102.10 thousand metric tons in the same quarter of 2017 to97.64 thousand metric tons this year. The decline in production was affected by the following:- decreased area harvested and yield in Central Luzon (Nueva Ecija) due to damages caused by army worms; and
- some areas planted to bermuda onion in Nueva Ecija last year were planted with palay to stop the recurrence of army worms.
- Central Luzon had the highest production of
84.76 thousand metric tons which represents86.8 percent of the country’s total bermuda onion. This was followed by Cagayan Valley and MIMAROPA with8.2 percent and2.6 percent shares, respectively.
