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2020-19

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)– La Union Provincial Statistical Office carries out the Palay and Corn Production Survey (PCPS) along with Backyard and Livestock Poultry Survey (BLPS)as rider on the first 10 days of December 2020.

 

The PCPS and BLPS is conducted on aquarterly basis. The PCPS generates estimates on palay and corn production, area, yield and other production-related data that serve as inputs for policy making and programs on palay and rice. On the other hand, the BLPSwill be used in generating estimates on inventory, supply and disposition of livestock and poultry commodities at the backyard farm levels.

 

Data gathered for both PCPS and BLPS are inputs to the Performance of Agriculture Report (PAR) and accordingly to the preparation of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Moreover, the survey supports the data needs of planners, policy and decision makers, and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector particularly the National Economic and Development Authority(NEDA), Department of Agriculture (DA) and its agencies such as Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF), and the general public.

 

In La Union, the ninehired Statistical Researchers(SRs)for both surveys will revisit and enumerate 47 barangays that comprises a total of 526 sample farming and nonfarming households.

 

The PSA reassures the public that the data gathered in said surveysare for statistical purposes only. Information obtained from the respondents shall be accorded strictly confidential as provided under Republic Act 10625.

 

 

 

SGD. DANITES E. TEÑIDO, Ph.D.

Chief Statistical Specialist