The January to March 2022 total duck production was registered at 6.26 thousand metric tons, liveweight. This showed a decline of -21.5 percent from the previous year’s same period output of 7.98 thousand metric tons, liveweight.

Central Luzon was the top producer of duck during the quarter with 1.22 thousand metric tons, liveweight or 19.5 percent of the country’s total duck output.

Completing the top five (5) major producing regions and their corresponding percent shares to total production were the following:

a. SOCCSKSARGEN, 17.0 percent;
b. Western Visayas, 11.7 percent;
c. BARMM, 11.3 percent; and
d. Cagayan Valley, 10.2 percent.

These regions accounted for 69.7 percent of the country’s total duck production.

Relative to their levels in the same quarter of 2021, 10  regions reported decreases in production during the quarter. Eastern Visayas exhibited the highest annual decline of -58.2 percent, from 257 metric tons, liveweight in the same period of the previous year to 107 metric tons, liveweight this quarter of 2022. 

As of 31 March 2022, the total duck inventory was estimated at 12.54 million birds. About 31.0 percent of duck population was recorded in Central Luzon, followed by SOCCSKSARGEN with 12.3 percent share and Cagayan Valley with 10.2 percent share. These three regions accounted for 53.5 percent of the total duck inventory in the country. (Figure 2)

The average farmgate price of duck in commercial farms for January to March 2022 was quoted at PhP 92.45 per kilogram, liveweight. This was 26.0 percent higher than the previous year’s same period average price of PhP 73.37 per kilogram, liveweight.

During the reference period, the highest farmgate price was recorded in January 2022 at PhP 103.96 per kilogram, liveweight, while the lowest was quoted in February 2022 at PhP 82.17 per kilogram, liveweight. (Figure 3)

DENNIS S. MAPA, Ph.D.
Undersecretary
National Statistician and Civil Registrar General
 

TECHNICAL NOTES

This Duck Situation Report presents the duck industry in terms of volume of production, inventory by region, and average farmgate prices. The report is prepared to serve as a ready reference for the various clients and stakeholders in the agriculture sector of the Philippine Statictics Authority (PSA). It is released quarterly; that is, every February, May, August, and November.

Concepts and Definitions

Volume of production refers to the number of tended/raised duck disposed for dressing including animals shipped-out for dressing. This is expressed in metric tons, liveweight.

Inventory refers to the actual number of duck present in the farm as of a specific reference date.

Farmgate price refers to the price received by raisers for their produce at the location of farm.  Thus, the marketing cost, such as transport and other marketing costs (if any) incurred in selling the produce, are not included in the farmgate prices. The 2020 to 2021 farmgate prices included in this special release were sourced from the Price Statistics Division (PSD), while the 2022 farmgate prices were based on the surveys of Livestock and Poultry Statistics Division (LPSD).