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Agri budget for 2026 to feature bigger allocations for coconut, coffee, sugar

by May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it will seek to move away from its current rice-centric focus by funding more high-value crops like coconut and coffee in 2026.

“Bago ako pumasok, actually rice-centric na. (Before I took office, the Department was already rice-centric) But right now, for our proposed 2026 budget, we are putting more money into coconut, calamansi, coffee, sugar, (and other) high-value crops,” Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr. told reporters.

In the first quarter, the value of production of palay (unmilled rice) at constant 2018 prices grew 0.3% to 4.7 million metric tons.

Corn production declined 5.1% in the quarter, reversing the year-earlier 0.5% growth.

Coconut output slipped 0.3%, against the 3.3% decline a year earlier.

Crops that posted double-digit increases in the value of production included tobacco (80.4%), cacao (23.6%), sugarcane (19%), rubber (13.6%), coffee (10.7%) and mung bean (10.1%). — Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza

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