GARLIC registered the highest value of production growth among crops in the country last year, soaring 203.43 percent from its 2013 level.
“Among crops that recovered from negative growth last year, garlic posted the biggest gain in gross receipts,” noted the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS).
The BAS cited higher output and price of garlic as factors that drove such growth. BAS data released this week showed garlic’s 2014 value of production reached nearly P946 million at current prices, exceeding the P311.59-million gross receipts from this crop in 2013.
Garlic’s lackluster performance in 2013 led to a 61.12-percent drop in its growth that year, from the crop’s P801.50-million value of output in 2012, BAS data also showed.
Growth of garlic in 2014 contributed to the Philippine crops sub-sector’s P933.7 billion gross value of production last year, noted the BAS.
The BAS further reported garlic’s volume of production last year rose 0.89 percent to some 9,000 metric tons from its 2013 level.
Catherine J. Teves / Philippines News Agency