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Agriculture in the Philippines is a major sector of the economy, ranking third among the sectors in 2022 behind only Services and Industry. Its outputs include staples like rice and corn, but also export crops such as coffee, cavendish banana, pineapple and pineapple products, coconut, sugar, and mango. [1]
The Philippines' Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards (Filipino: Kawanihan ng mga Pamantayan sa Produktong Pansaka at Pampangisdaan, abbreviated as BAFS), is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for setting and implementing standards for fresh primary and secondary processed agricultural and fishery products.
The Philippines is the world's third largest producer of coconuts, and the world's largest exporter of coconut products. [52] Coconut production is generally concentrated in medium-sized farms. [53] The Philippines is also the world's third largest producer of pineapples, producing 2,862,000 metric tons (2,817,000 long tons; 3,155,000 short ...
The National Food Authority was created by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree No. 4 dated September 26, 1972, under the name National Grains Authority (NGA) with the mission of promoting the integrated growth and development of the grains industry covering rice, corn, feed grains and other grains like sorghum, mung beans, and peanuts. [1]
Additionally, food exporters and processors with Customs Bonded Warehouses (CBW) could import sugar tariff-free for products sold overseas, as permitted by the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines (TCCP). In 2010–2011, the Philippines again had a sugar surplus, but significant amounts of sugar premixes for industrial use were imported.
San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc., (formerly known as San Miguel Pure Foods Company, Inc.), is a Philippine food and beverage company headquartered in Pasig, Metro Manila. It is the largest food and beverage company in the Philippines, with nearly 3,000 employees deployed in a nationwide network of offices, farms, manufacturing, processing and ...
The Philippines is the 8th-largest rice producer in the world, accounting for 2.8% of global rice production. [1] The Philippines was also the world's largest rice importer in 2010. [2] [needs update] There are an estimated 2.4 million rice farmers in the Philippines as of 2020. [3]
Dali claims that the quality of their private label products "meets or exceeds the equivalent national brands sold in other national retail chains" while being significantly more affordable. [12] Around 60–70% of its products are sourced locally in the Philippines and the remainder are imported from Malaysia, China, South Korea, and Europe ...