THE country’s agriculture production only rose by 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019, the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Wednesday, with the Department of Agriculture (DA) attributing the marginal growth to the African swine fever (ASF) and natural disasters that struck the country during the period.
In a report, the statistics agency said the October-to-December figure was lower than the 1.9 percent recorded in the same period in 2018 despite output improvements in crops, poultry and fisheries subsectors.
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