{"id":136357,"date":"2017-12-05T01:08:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136357"},"modified":"2017-12-05T01:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:08:50","slug":"q3-palay-harvest-area-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/05\/q3-palay-harvest-area-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"Q3 palay harvest area expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_136359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136359\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5053509346_11238ea52d_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136359\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5053509346_11238ea52d_z.jpg\" alt=\"The harvest area for palay nationwide during the July-September period increased further this year, raising production of the staple grain. (Photo by Mr. Leeds\/Flcikr, CC BY-ND 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5053509346_11238ea52d_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5053509346_11238ea52d_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The harvest area for palay nationwide during the July-September period increased further this year, raising production of the staple grain. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tzf093\/5053509346\/in\/photolist-8Gyygu\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tzf093\/\">Mr. Leeds\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The harvest area for palay nationwide during the July-September period increased further this year, raising production of the staple grain.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s palay harvest area rose 14.43 percent to 852,629 hectares nationwide, latest available data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) show.<\/p>\n<p>The data show such hectarage exceeded the country&#8217;s palay harvest area of 745,136 hectares and 652,718 hectares in 2016 and 2015, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Increases in harvest area across regions were attributed mainly on sufficient water supply and government interventions on provision of high-yielding varieties, seeds and fertilizer during the cropping period,&#8221; said PSA, explaining this year&#8217;s increase in palay hectarage.<\/p>\n<p>The increase helped the country realize 14.17 percent growth in palay production during the July-September 2017 period when output hit almost 3.4 million metric tons, said PSA.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine palay production volume was lower in 2016 (2.96 million MT) and 2015 (2.55 million MT), it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The harvest area for palay nationwide during the July-September period increased further this year, raising production of the staple &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":136359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[37054],"class_list":["post-136357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-q3-palay-harvest","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}