Development of Agribusiness Enterprises - Asian Productivity ...

Table 2. Enterprise Classification by Number of Employees
Category Number of Employees
Micro enterprises 1 – 4
Cottage type 5 – 9
Small enterprises 10 – 99
Medium enterprises 100 – 199
Large enterprises 200+
Source: University of the Philippines, Institute for Small-scale Industries, 1997.
Number of Agribusiness Manufacturing Firms and Employees
Based on the latest statistical survey carried out in 1995 by the National Statistics
Coordination Board (NSCB), of a total of 10,219 manufacturing firms, 6,222 (61 percent)
were agribusinesses that were employing 505,786 (76 percent) of the national workforce.
Food manufacturing accounted for a 40.31 percent share of the total number of
agribusinesses, while in terms of employment their share was 18 percent.
Performance of Agriculture
At 1999 constant prices, agriculture grew by 6.70 percent, a turnaround from the
negative performance in 1998 of 6.56 percent. The figures include crops, livestock, poultry,
fisheries, and agricultural activities and services. The crop subsector contributed the highest
share at 10.62 percent (1999).
The trends in agricultural production from 1995 to 1999 were, by sector: cereals, 4.47
percent; major crops, 2.62 percent (other crops declined by 2.51 percent); livestock, 4.73
percent; poultry, 5.53 percent; egg production, 3.38 percent; and fisheries, 0.28 percent
(Table 3).
Table 3. Agricultural Crop Production in the Philippines, 1995-99
Item 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
(Unit: 000 mt)
Growth Rate
(percent)
Cereals
Palay 10,540.6 11,283.6 11,269.0 8,554.8 11,786.6 5.15
Corn 4,128.5 4,151.3 4,332.4 3,823.2 4,584.6 3.27
Sub-total
Major Crops
14,669.1 15,434.9 15,601.4 12,378.0 16,371.2 4.47
Coconuts 12,183.1 11,368.1 13,182.5 11,587.6 10,504.0 -3.04
Sugar cane 17,774.4 23,142.2 22,273.1 17,333.4 22,292.9 8.22
Bananas 3,499.1 3,311.8 3,773.8 3,492.6 3,727.4 1.97
Pineapples 1,442.8 1,542.2 1,638.0 1,488.7 1,518.5 1.50
Coffee 134.0 119.0 130.0 122.2 115.9 -3.28
Mangoes 593.5 897.7 1,004.7 932.1 800.2 10.45
Tobacco 63.7 64.9 65.3 62.0 56.1 -3.02
Abaca 64.8 70.4 78.1 71.2 74.0 3.50
Rubber 181.6 192.7 221.3 222.8 214.6 4.49
Cacao 7.9 7.9 7.8 7.4 7.7 -0.58
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