Major Vegetables and Rootcrops Quarterly Bulletin, January-March 2017
May 2017
Eggplant
- For January-March 2017, production of eggplant at 78.76 thousand metric tons was 3.1 percent higher than the previous year’s level of 76.36 thousand metric tons. The improvement in output was due to the following factors:
- increase in area planted in Tarlac, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, and La Union due to good price and demand;
- bigger fruits harvested in Tarlac and Nueva Ecija due to sufficient use of fertilizer;
- use of high yielding varieties in Pangasinan; and
- lesser infestation of pests such as flea beetles, hornworms and fruit borer in Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.
- increase in area planted in Tarlac, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, and La Union due to good price and demand;
- Ilocos Region recorded the highest production at 29.46 thousand metric tons which represented 37.4 percent of the total eggplant production this quarter. Central Luzon ranked second with 18.7 percent and CALABARZON with 16.8 percent.
