Philippine agricultural growth slows in second quarter

According to a report by the Philippine "Business Mirror" on August 16, agriculture is still lagging behind among the main economic sectors of the Philippines. In the second quarter of this year, agriculture, forestry and fishery in the Philippines only increased by 0.2%, which was lower than the industry's 2.1% and the service industry's 6. %. After deducting forestry, agriculture and fishery even shrank by 1.3%, which was mainly caused by a 14% decline in fishery. The output value of crops, livestock and poultry increased by 1.2%, 0.7% and 1.5% respectively. Except for tiger shrimp and Except for blue trevally, which increased by 0.9% and 30.1% respectively, all others decreased. Among them, tilapia and milkfish decreased by 4.6% and 19.1% respectively. In addition, sugarcane decreased by 11.3%, corn decreased by 0.8%, and eggs decreased by 2.1% %, live pigs increased by 1%, and popular vegetables such as cabbage and eggplant ...