Release Date :
Reference Number :
2020-44
The total volume of chicken production from January to June 2020 was recorded at 43,812, metric tons liveweight. This was 3.64 percent higher than the 42,272 metric tons liveweight chicken production in same period of 2019. Chicken production for both 1st and 2nd quarters increased by 5.77 and 1.60 percent respectively.
Ilocos Region contributed 4.90 percent to the national chicken production of 893,718.89 metric tons liveweight in 1st semester 2020. lt ranked 6th among the chicken producing regions in the country.
INVENTORY
As of 01 January 2020, the total inventory of chicken in the region was recorded at 10.68 million birds, higher by 6.31 percent from the 10.04 million birds recorded in the same period of 2019. The increment was contributed by increases in chicken inventory in all provinces.
Likewise, the total chicken inventory as of April 1 and July 1 , 2020 increased by 8.73 percent and 1.56 percent respectively. The increase in chicken inventory as of July 1 , 2020 was contributed by increases in inventory in llocos Norte, llocos Sur and Pangasinan. However, a drop of 6.66 percent on chicken Inventory as of July 1, 2020 was noted in La Union.
By provincial breakdown, Pangasinan contributed the highest share of 54.64 percent
to the total chicken inventory in the region as of July 1,2020. Far behind were Ilocos Norte at 19.61 percent share, La Union by 15.97, and Ilocos Sur by 9.28 percent.
CHICKEN DRESSED IN POULTRY DRESSING PLANTS
The number of chickens dressed in Poultry Dressing Plants (PDPs) in 1st semester 2020 was estimated at 13.89 million birds, a meagergrowth of 0.002 percent over last year's level of same period. Dressings in PDPs during the first quarter 2020 posted increase ot 27.33 percent. In contrast, dressings of chickens in PDPs in 2nd quarter 2020 decreased by 23.95 percent over last year's level of 7.40 million birds. The decrease can be attributed to the limited movement within and outside the region due to COVID 2019 Enhance Community Quarantine (ECQ) during the period.
FARM PRICE
The average farm price of chicken native live for lst semester 2020 was PhP16O.24 per kilo liveweight. This was higher by 4.70 percent than last year's price of PhP153.04 in same period. The monthly average prices during the 1st half of 2020 were generally higher than the price levels of 2019 except in May 2020, wherein there was a meager decrease in price of 0.10 percent. (Figure 4).
SGD. ATTY. SHEILA O. DE GUZMAN
Officer-in-Charge, RSSO I
