RICE production likely fell in the third quarter due to a series of storms that hit the country over the July-September period, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Monday.

Agriculture Assistant Secretary and spokesman Arnel de Mesa told reporters that output remained constrained by the impact of the El Niño weather pattern earlier this year and the typhoons that followed the end of a dry spell.

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