The country’s total rice stock inventory was estimated at 1.88 million metric tons as of March 2026, an annual increase of 16.5 percent from the 1.61 million metric tons inventory in the same period of the previous year, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
Month-on-month, the volume of rice stocks recorded a decrease of 11.1 percent from the previous month’s inventory of 2.11 million metric tons.
This month’s rice stocks inventories registered annual increases from the NFA depositories by 34.9 percent, from the households by 15.9 percent, and from the commercial sector by 6.9 percent.
In comparison to the February 2026 rice stocks levels, decreases were noted from the commercial sector by 28.7 percent and in the NFA depositories by 4.1 percent. Meanwhile, rice stocks inventory from the households increased by 1.0 percent.
Of this month’s total rice stocks, 48.4 percent were from the households, 30.1 percent were from the commercial sector, and 21.5 percent were from the NFA depositories.
As of 01 March 2026, the total corn stocks inventory of the country reached 465.86 thousand metric tons. This indicates an annual increase of 26.4 percent from the 368.51 thousand metric tons inventory in the same period of 2025.
The corn stocks inventory exhibited a month-on-month decrease of 18.7 percent relative to its previous month’s inventory level of 573.04 thousand metric tons.
From the same month of the previous year’s level, corn stocks inventory recorded annual increases from the households by 31.0 percent and from the commercial sector by 25.6 percent.
Relative to the inventory level in February 2026, the volume of corn stocks from the commercial sector registered a month-on-month decrease of 20.5 percent, and from households by 6.9 percent.
About 85.1 percent of this month’s total corn stocks inventory were from the commercial sector, while the remaining 14.9 percent were from households.
