THE country’s palay (unmilled rice) output went down by 4.5 percent to 3.05 million metric tons (MMT) in the third quarter of the year from 3.20 MMT in 2018, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.
In its July to September “Palay and Corn Quarterly Bulletin,” the PSA blamed the reduction on the harvest area declining by 9.8 percent to 742,870 hectares (ha) from 824,870 ha in the same period in 2018.
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