Major Vegetables and Rootcrops Quarterly Bulletin, January-March 2017
May 2017
Cassava
- For January-March 2017, production of cassava was estimated at 589.75 thousand metric tons which was 1.5 percent higher than last year’s 581.05 thousand metric tons. This could be attributed to the following factors:
- increase in area harvested in Bukidnon due to high demand for feeds and other industrial uses;
- more area harvested in Bohol due to resumption of milling operations of Liwayway Marketing Corporation (LMC); and
- movement of harvest in South Cotabato from the fourth quarter of 2016 to the first quarter of 2017 due to drought in the first semester of 2016 that resulted to delayed planting.
- increase in area harvested in Bukidnon due to high demand for feeds and other industrial uses;
- Northern Mindanao topped all the cassava producing regions with 189.41 thousand metric tons sharing 32.1 percent to the national output. The other leading producers were ARMM with 16.9 percent and Cagayan Valley with 16.6 percent.
