Philippines - Costs and Returns Survey of Onion Production 2006

Philippines Costs and Returns Survey of Onion Production 2006

Agricultural Survey This is the third in the series of surveys on the costs and returns of onion production implemented by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS). The survey was conducted in 2006 under the auspices of the Diversified Farm Income and Market Development Project (DFIMDP) of the Department of Agriculture (DA). The BAS forerunner, Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAEcon), had also conducted Costs and Returns Surveys (CRS). The BAS ran its first CRS for onion in 1997 under the project "Strengthening of Benchmark Data for Priority Crops Under the Key Commercial Crops Development Program (KCCDP) with financial support from the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR). The survey covered the country's top three (3) onion producing provinces, Ilocos Sur, Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija. The second survey was implemented in 2002 under the project Ginintuang Masaganang Ani-High Value Commercial Crops Program (GMA-HVCCP) of the Department of Agriculture. Provinces surveyed were Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija.

ID Number PHL-BAS-CRSOP-2006-v3.0

The survey focused on generating costs and returns structure of onion production.

The scope of the survey included the following:

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FARMERS/OPERATORS such as age, sex, main occupation, experience in onion production and highest educational attainment.

FARM CHARACTERISTICS such as total farm area, number of parcels operated by the farmer, area planted and harvested to onion and other crops, number of croppings per year, variety of onion planted, tenurial status, method of planting, month of planting and harvesting onion.

FARM INVESTMENTS such as inventory of farm investments used, year and cost of acquisition, repairs and improvement cost and estimated life and usage in the focus onion farm.

MATERIAL INPUTS such as quantity and cost of planting materials, fertilizers, mulching materials, insecticides, herbicides/weedicides, fungicides and other chemicals.

LABOR INPUTS such as labor utilization (in terms of mandays) and labor cost by type of farming activity, by source of labor and by sex and food cost incurred.

OTHER PRODUCTION COSTS such as cash and non-cash payments for land tax, land lease/rental, rental value of owned land, rentals of machine, animals and tools, fuel and oil, transport costs of inputs, irrigation fee, electricity, interest payment on crop loans, storage cost and other production costs.

PRODUCTION AND DISPOSITION such as volume of onion production and its disposition in terms of sold, harvesters' share, threshers' share, other laborers' share, landowners' share, lease rental, for home consumption, given away, used for seeds, wastage and other purposes.

BUYER INFORMATION such as major buyer of onion and the percentage of onion sold to each buyer and the perceived right price of onion.

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED such as problems affecting production and marketing of onion.

ACCESS TO CREDIT such as amount and source of crop loan, interest rate per annum and percentage of loan used in onion production.

OTHER INFORMATION such as membership in onion-related association and benefits derived, access to extension services, future plans of onion farmers and their recommendations to improve onion industry.

The survey covered the top three (3) onion producing provinces namely: Ilocos Norte, Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija.

Province was the lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data.

The survey covered all onion farms with harvests during the last completed cropping in 2006 as the reference period.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Maria Carol Duran	CGD	Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS)	Documenter of the study
Ana M. Eusebio	AME	Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS)	Reviewer of the study
Maura S. Lizarondo	MSL	Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS)	Reviewer of the study

2010-04-27 Version 1.0 (April 2010)

DDI-PHL-BAS-CRSOP-2006-v1.0