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Agriculture in the Philippines is a major sector of the economy, ranking third among the sectors in 2022 behind only Services and Industry. Its outputs include staples like rice and corn, but also export crops such as coffee, cavendish banana, pineapple and pineapple products, coconut, sugar, and mango. [ 1 ]
Indonesia produced in 2018: 115.2 million tons of palm oil (largest producer in the world); 83.0 million tons of rice (3rd largest producer in the world, behind China and India); 30.2 million tons of maize (6th largest producer in the world); 21.7 million tons of sugar cane (12th largest producer in the world);
By 2021, rice production (palay) in the Philippines reached 20.0 million metric tons (MMT), a 3.5% increase from 2020, despite rice imports rising to 2.9 MMT. The RTL has significantly influenced the management of inflation in the rice sector since its implementation and serves as an approach for potential reforms in the agricultural sector of ...
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization with its headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna, in the Philippines, and offices in seventeen countries. [3][4] IRRI is known for its work in developing rice varieties that contributed to the Green Revolution in the 1960s which ...
The Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) is a cooperation initiative established in 1994 to spur development in remote and less developed areas in the four participating Southeast Asian countries. [1] It is home to ecologically important areas. The Heart of Borneo, which straddles Indonesia ...
Emergence of agriculture in the Philippines. The means by which agriculture expanded into the Philippines is argued by many different anthropologists and an exact date of its origin is unknown. [1][2][3][4] However, there are proxy indicators and other pieces of evidence that allow anthropologists to get an idea of when different crops reached ...
Farmers planting rice in Cambodia. A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in southern China, associated with pre-Austronesian and Hmong-Mien cultures.
This article includes the table with land use statistics by country.Countries are ranked by their total cultivated land area, which is the sum of the total arable land area and total area of permanent crops.