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Among occupation groups, workers in elementary occupations made up the largest percentage of employed persons as they comprised 27.7 percent of the 41.67 million total

Male recipients comprised 64 to 69 percent of the farmer-beneficiaries in Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, MIMAROPA, Western and Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula,

The bulk of palay produced in 2009 came from Central Luzon, Western Visayas, Cagayan Valley and Ilocos Region with a combined output of 8.44 million mt or 52 percent of the

• Ilocos Region recorded the biggest production at 28.18 thousand metric tons and shared 39.0 percent to the country’s total tomato output. Central Luzon came next with

• The bulk of production for this period came from Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley and Central Luzon with a combined share of seventy-four (74) percent to the country’s

 The top producing regions were Central Luzon, MIMAROPA, Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley with a combined share of ninety-nine (99.0) percent to the

o The bulk of mongo production came from Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, and Central Luzon with share in national production 90 percent (Figure 1).. o Mongo production

• The top mongo producing regions during the quarter were Cagayan Valley, ARMM and Central Visayas with respective shares of 22 percent, 17 percent and 13 percent to the

The highest annual average inflation remained in Region VII (Central Visayas) at 4.7 percent while the lowest was still noted in Region I (Ilocos) at 2.3 percent.. By

 In terms of net profit-cost ratio, CALABARZON got the highest at 0.72 while Cagayan Valley, Bicol, Central Visayas and Davao Region registered net loss-cost ratios of 0.03 to

About 3.05 percent to 4.82 percent average increments in irrigated areas were reported in Ilocos Region, Central Luzon, Central Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao

An average expansion of around 2.0 percent in irrigated areas was noted in the majority of the regions, namely, CAR, Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley,

By region, the national irrigation system was the primary source of water to 43 to 67 percent of the irrigated farmlands in Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, CALABARZON,

By region, the national irrigation system was the major source of water in Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, CALABARZON, Western Visayas, Northern Mindanao, Davao

About 51.2 percent to 68.9 percent of the region’s total working children aged 5 to 17 years old were engaged in agriculture in Cagayan Valley, MIMAROPA, Western Visayas

About half a million males were employed in agriculture in Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao Region,

The lowest male unemployment rate in 2012 was registered in ARMM at 2.4 percent and it had the biggest growth rate averaging 20.4 percent per year.. In Cagayan Valley,

The biggest average employment growth rates were noted in MIMAROPA, Central Visayas, Central Luzon and Zambonga Peninsula; these ranged from 3 to 3.2 percent.. The

Palay farm workers in Cagayan Valley, CALABARZON, Central Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Davao Region and SOCCSKSARGEN had wage rate gains ranging from 1 to 5 index

The gain in the area fertilized in white com farms was biggest in Eastern Visayas at 30.7 percent and CARAGA at 29.0 percent On the other hand, about 68.3 percent expansion was

Similarly, narrowing of farm- wholesale price gaps was dominant in eggplant at 48 percent, squash at 37 percent and stringbeans at 15 percent in 2017.. In the case of the

Widening of the price gaps was seen for calamansi at 78 percent, mango at 46 percent and pineapple at 53 percent (Table 6a).. The farm-retail price gap of rice slightly increased

2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 the lead authors and their contributing authors share their