FARM output shrank by 0.3 percent in the first quarter, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Wednesday, with the crops, fisheries and livestock subsectors all contracting during the period.

Crops, which accounted for 58 percent of total production, recorded a 1.6-percent year-on-year drop that Agriculture Secretary William Dar blamed on "spiraling prices of fertilizer."

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