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technologies like <strong>the</strong> improved open-pollinated varieties (OPVs) and hybrids, and <strong>the</strong> application<br />
<strong>of</strong> fertilizer as a result <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> government's subsidized input program. Moreover, <strong>the</strong> decline in<br />
area in 1992 stemmed from <strong>the</strong> shift <strong>of</strong> maize farmers to o<strong>the</strong>r cash crops such as asparagus,<br />
upland rice, banana, pineapple, sugarcane, soybean, and cassava in Mindanao and <strong>the</strong> conversion <strong>of</strong><br />
farmlands into industrial estates in Luzon and <strong>the</strong> Visayas.<br />
Table 1. <strong>Maize</strong> production, area, and yield in <strong>the</strong> Phil ippines, 1982-1992.<br />
Year Area Production Yield<br />
(000 ha) (000 t) (t/ha)<br />
1982 3,383 3,404 1.00<br />
1984 3,227 3,250 1.00<br />
1986 3,595 4,091 1.14<br />
1988 3,745 4,428 1.18<br />
1991 3,589 4,655 1.30<br />
1992 3,323 4,560 1.37<br />
Source<br />
Bureau <strong>of</strong> Agric. Statistics.<br />
Table 2. Corn production in <strong>the</strong> Philippines. 1990-1992.<br />
Region<br />
1990 1991 1992<br />
Area Prodtn Area Prodtn Area Prodtn<br />
(000 ha) (t/ha) (000 ha) (t/ha) (000 ha) (t/ha)<br />
Philippines<br />
Car<br />
I locos<br />
C. Valley<br />
C. Luzon<br />
S. Tagalog<br />
Bicol<br />
W. Visayas<br />
C. Visayas<br />
E. Visayas<br />
W. Mindanao<br />
N. Mindanao<br />
S. Mindanao<br />
C. Mindanao<br />
3819 1.27 3589 1.30 3323 1.37<br />
22 1.14 21 1.00 22 1.41<br />
79 1.11 84 1.15 68 0.96<br />
347 1.59 305 1.53 328 1.98<br />
13 1.31 12 1.58 12 1.42<br />
237 0.93 230 0.92 215 0.91<br />
194 0.77 190 0.79 175 0.78<br />
63 0.54 70 0.59 67 0.82<br />
551 0.54 458 0.52 405 0.50<br />
231 0.95 216 1.00 150 0.96<br />
308 0.85 275 0.89 244 0.88<br />
315 1.36 235 1.41 319 1.64<br />
792 1.64 752 1.66 710 1.65<br />
666 1.90 652 1. 91 608 1.90<br />
Source: Animal Husb. and Agric. J. (Vol. 27, No.2, 1993).<br />
Hybrids, improved OPV's, and traditional varieties are extensively grown, each contributing<br />
an aggregate share to <strong>the</strong> overall production output. <strong>Maize</strong> hybrids which produce an average<br />
yield <strong>of</strong> 4-5 tlha occupy about 311,000 ha or 8% <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> total area. Improved OPVs giving an<br />
average yield <strong>of</strong> 2 tlha are planted in 200,000 ha or roughly 7% <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> available production area.<br />
The remaining 85% <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 3.29 m ha are planted with traditional varieties, and F2 and F3 <strong>of</strong><br />
hybrids. However in Isabela (nor<strong>the</strong>rn Philippines), hybrid utilization is Quite high reaching<br />
more than 40% <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> total maize acreage (Table 3). As a consequence, even with <strong>the</strong> availability<br />
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