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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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