The volume of chicken egg production in July to September 2023 was recorded at 185.26 thousand metric tons. This indicates an annual increase of 4.7 percent from its previous year’s same quarter output of 176.96 thousand metric tons. (Figure 1)

CALABARZON remains as the top producer of chicken egg with 58.53 thousand metric tons or 31.6 percent share to the total chicken egg production during the quarter. Completing the top five regions with the highest volume of chicken egg production this quarter were the following:

a.    Central Luzon, 34.11 thousand metric tons;  
b.    Northern Mindanao, 20.14 thousand metric tons;  
c.    Central Visayas, 18.96 thousand metric tons;and  
d.    Western Visayas, 10.55 thousand metric tons.

These regions accounted for 76.8 percent of the country’s total chicken egg production during the quarter.

Relative to their outputs in the same quarter of 2022, 10 regions posted increases in production during the quarter. In terms of level, CALABARZON posted the highest annual increase of 3.91 thousand metric tons, from 54.62 thousand metric tons in the same period of the previous year to 58.53 thousand metric tons in this quarter.