Philippines - Costs and Returns Survey of Garlic Production 2006

Philippines Costs and Returns Survey of Garlic Production 2006

Agricultural Survey This is the third in the series of surveys on the costs and returns of garlic production which is being implemented by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS). This 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 garlic in 1997 under the project "Strengthening of Benchmark Data for Priority Crops Under the Key Commercial Crops Development Program (KCCDP) with financial support provided by the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR). The survey covered the country's top two garlic producing provinces, Ilocos Norte and Mindoro Occidental. 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, Nueva Ecija and Mindoro Occidental.

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

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

The scope of the survey included the following:

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

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

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 garlic farm.

MATERIAL INPUTS such as usage 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 garlic 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 garlic and the percentage of garlic sold to each buyer and the perceived right price of garlic.

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

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

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

The survey covered the top 3 garlic producing provinces namely: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and Nueva Ecija.

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

The survey covered all garlic farms with harvest 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

2010-02-16 Version 1.0 (February 2010)

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