Major Vegetables and Rootcrops Quarterly Bulletin, January-March 2017
May 2017
Sweet Potato
- During the January-March 2017 period, production of sweet potato dropped to 112.24 thousand metric tons, from 113.37 thousand metric tons in 2016 or by 1.0 percent. Among the factors that caused the decline were the following:
- decrease in yield in Albay due to root rot caused by continuous rains during root formation; and
- poor quality of tubers harvested in Leyte due to effect of weevils caused by frequent rainfall.
- decrease in yield in Albay due to root rot caused by continuous rains during root formation; and
- Bicol Region, the leading producer with 21.41 thousand metric tons shared 19.1 percent to total sweet potato production this quarter. Eastern Visayas ranked second with 12.4 percent followed by Western Visayas with 10.4 percent.
