Fruits production decreases by 0.5 percent

In 2023 Davao Region produced 3,457,906.64 Metric Tons (MT) of fruit crops. It declined by 0.5 percent from 3,474,562.63 MT in 2022. The decrease was mainly attributed to the production drop of banana by 17,573.23 MT between 2022 and 2023. Fruit crops production likewise dropped by 1.1 percent from 2021 to 2022.

Top 10 Fruit Crops by Volume of Production

The top 10 fruit crops accounted for 99.7 percent of the total production in the region while the rest meagerly contributed 0.3 percent.

• Banana accounted for 94.8 percent of the total fruit crops production at 3,277,125.80 MT. However, its production continued to decelerate at 0.5 percent and 1.1 percent in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
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  Durian ranked second which contributed 1.7 percent to the total crop production or 60,331.33 MT. It had an increasing trend in 2023 and 2022 at 2.9 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively. 
   
• Mango at third recorded 43,639.09 MT. Its production decreased by 2.6 percent in 2023 and 3.6 percent in 2022.
   
• At fourth, pineapple listed 27,407.30 MT. With a slight declined by 0.02 percent in 2023 from contraction of 1.7 percent in 2022.
   
• Production of pomelo at fifth registered 14,995.11 MT. It decreased by 1.6 percent in 2023, a reversal from an increase by 0.7 percent increase in 2022.
   
• Papaya at sixth produced 10,898.60 MT. It dropped by 1.9 percent in 2023 from a 2.7 percent increase in 2022.

Fruit Crops Production by Province

Davao del Norte had the highest percentage share of fruit crops production in the region with 42.7 percent, estimated at 1,476,452.57 MT.

Followed by Davao del Sur at 854,646.96 MT or 24.7 percentage share to the total production.

Davao de Or contributed 22.5 percent to the total production of the region or 777,734.72 MT share.

Davao Occidental and Davao Oriental shared the least in the total production, contributing 5.1 percent and 5.0 percent or 176,843.79 MT and 172,228.56 MT, respectively. 
 

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TECHNICAL NOTES

The data from this Special Release was based on the Crops Production Survey (CrPS). It is a quarterly survey which aims to generate basic production statistics for crops other than palay and corn at the national and sub-national levels. It covers more than 280 crops sub-classified under three commodity groupings, namely: 1) Non-Food and Industrial Crops, 2) Fruit Crops, and 3) Vegetables and Rootcrops. The commodity coverage by province differs and depends on what each province produces.

Crop Production is the quantity produced and actually harvested for a particular crop during the reference period. It includes those measured but damaged, stolen, given away, consumed, given as harvesters’ and threshers’ shares, reserved etc. Excluded are those produced but not harvested for whatever reasons such as due to low price, lack of demand and force majeure or fortuitous events, etc.

CrPS survey results are posted at the PSA website (https://openstat.psa.gov.ph)  

APPROVED FOR RELEASE:

RANDOPLH ANTHONY B. GALES
(Chief Statistical Specialist)
Officer-In-Charge
Regional Statistical Services Office 11