Philippines - Costs and Returns Survey of Palay Production by Seed Type and Class 2005

Philippines Costs and Returns Survey of Palay Production by Seed Type and Class 2005

Agricultural Survey This is the third in the series of surveys on the costs and returns of palay production which is being implemented by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS). The survey which was conducted in 2005 focused on cost of production of palay by seed type and class in the three major producing provinces. Funds for this survey came from Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) Rice Program 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 in January 1992 with 1991 as the reference period covering only one round or the last cropping season. This was funded by Agrarian Reform project alloted to the Department of Agriculture. The survey aimed to establish the costs and returns structure of palay production by farm type (irrigated, rainfed and upland) at the regional level. The second survey was conducted in two rounds covering the period January to December 2002. Financial support was provided by the Grains Sector Development Program (GSDP) of the Department of Agriculture. It was designed to generate the production cost and returns of irrigated and non-irrigated palay for the dry and wet seasons at the regional and provincial levels.

ID Number PHL-BAS-CRSPPSTC-2005-v2.0

The survey focused on generating costs and returns structure of palay production by farm type and by seed type and class.

The scope of the survey included the following:

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FARMERS such as age, palay farming experience and highest educational attainment.

FARM CHARACTERISTICS such as total farm area and palay area, number of croppings per year, type, class and variety of palay seeds planted, source of seeds, type of palay farm, tenurial status, major source of irrigation, month and area planted and harvested.

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

MATERIAL INPUTS such as usage and cost of seeds, fertilizers, soil ameliorants, insecticides, herbicides/weedicides, fungicides, rodenticides and molluscicides.

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 and animals, fuel and oil, transport costs of inputs, irrigation fee, interest payment on crop loans and other production costs.

PRODUCTION AND DISPOSITION such as volume of palay 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/to be used for seeds and feeds, irrigation fee, wastage and other purposes.

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED such as problems affecting production and production losses

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PALAY PRODUCTION

OTHER INFORMATIONS ON HYBRID AND INBRED SEEDS USAGE such as years of planting hybrid seeds, variety used, area harvested, volume of production, reasons for shift from hybrid to inbred seeds

Three major palay producing provinces namely: Nueva Ecija, Leyte and Davao del Norte, each representing a major island in the country.

Barangay is the lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data

The survey covered all palay farms with harvest during the reference period July 2004 to June 2005

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

2010-03-19 Version 1.0 (March 2010)

DDI-PHL-BAS-CRSPPSTC-2005-v1.0