The Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI), one of the designated statistical activities of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), generates essential statistics for economic planning and analysis. It is specifically designed to collect and generate information on the levels, structure, performance, and trends of economic activities of the formal sector of the country’s economy.
The 2021 ASPBI is the 49th in the series of annual surveys of establishments in the country. It was conducted nationwide in April 2022 with 2021 as reference period. In this round of the ASPBI, the 2021 Survey of Information and Communication Technology (SICT) is a rider to this survey.
This Special Release discusses the performance of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Sector which includes the exploitation of vegetal and animal natural resources, comprising the activities of growing crops, raising and breeding of animals, and harvesting of timber and other plants, animals or animal products from a farm or their natural habitats
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing sector increases by 15.2%
In 2021, the Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) final results showed that 2,986 establishments in the formal sector of the economy were engaged in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing (AFF) activities. This showed an increase of 15.2% from the recorded 2,514 establishments in 2020.
Among industry groups, animal production recorded the highest number of establishments with 1,389 establishments (48.0%). This was followed by growing of non-perennial crops with 473 establishments (16.3%) and support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities with 389 establishments (13.4%).
Meanwhile, plant propagation, silviculture and other forestry activities, support services to forestry, and logging recorded less than one percent of the total number of establishments engaged in agriculture, forestry, and fishing activities. Specifically, logging recorded the lowest number of establishments with only four establishments (0.1%).
Figure 1. Top Three Establishments Engaged in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Sector by Industry Group, Philippines: 2021
By region, Central Luzon registered the highest number of establishments engaged in AFF activities with 441 establishments (15.2%). This was followed by CALABARZON and Western Visayas with 435 establishments (15.0%) and 346 establishments (11.9%), respectively. On the other hand, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) registered the lowest with only 14 establishments (0.5%).
Majority of workers are employed in growing of perennial crops
A total of 144,651 workers were employed in the AFF sector in 2021. This was 4.1% higher from the recorded 138,977 workers in 2020. Of which, 142,049 workers or 98.2% of the total employment were paid employees while the remaining 2,602 workers or 1.8% were working owners and unpaid workers.
Among industry groups, growing of perennial crops had the highest number of employments with 54,305 workers (37.5%). This was followed by animal production and growing of non-perennial crops with 36,730 workers (25.4%) and 21,489 workers (14.9%), respectively. Logging employed the lowest with only 20 workers (0.01%).
Figure 2. Percentage Distribution of Employment in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Sector by Industry Group, Philippines: 2021
Davao Region had the highest employment with 32,250 workers (22.3%), followed by Northern Mindanao with 20,869 workers (14.4%), and Western Visayas with 16,359 workers (11.3%). CAR recorded the lowest employment with 143 workers (0.1%).
By ratio, the AFF sector posted an average employment of 50 workers per establishment. This indicated a decrease of 9.1% from the posted average employment of 55 workers per establishment in 2020.
Growing of perennial crops posted the highest average employment with 173 workers per establishment among all AFF industry groups. Among regions, National Capital Region (NCR) posted the highest average employment with 182 workers per establishment. CAR posted the lowest average employment with 10 workers per establishment.
Growing of perennial crops generates the highest total revenue and total expense
The AFF sector generated a total revenue of PhP280.5 billion in 2021, which was 7.5% lower than the recorded total revenue of PhP303.1 billion in the previous year.
About 41.4% or PhP116.3 billion of the total revenue were from growing of perennial crops industry group. Animal production and growing of non-perennial crops generated the second and third highest revenue, amounted to PhP111.6 billion (39.8%) and PhP16.0 billion (5.7%), respectively. Logging generated the lowest revenue of PhP9.7 million (0.004%).
Similarly, expenditures of the AFF industries decreased by 18.9% from PhP299.7 billion in 2020 to PhP243.0 billion in 2021. By industry groups, growing of perennial crops with total expenses of PhP100.2 billion (41.2%), animal production with PhP94.4 billion (38.8%), and fishing with PhP15.2 billion (6.3%) were the top spenders in 2021.
Across regions, Northern Mindanao generated the highest total revenue and total expense of PhP76.0 billion (27.1%) and Php62.4 billion (25.7%), respectively. This was followed by Central Luzon with total revenue of PhP55.9 billion (19.9%) and total expense of PhP45.0 billion (18.5%). Davao Region ranked third with total revenue of PhP44.9 billion (16.0%) and total expense of PhP40.3 billion (16.6%).
Meanwhile, CAR generated the lowest total revenue and total expense, amounted to PhP85.2 million (0.03%) and PhP78.0 million (0.03%), respectively.
Figure 3. Top Three Industry Groups  | Figure 4. Top Three Industry Groups with  |
Revenue per expense ratio in AFF industry up by 13.9%
By revenue per expense ratio, activities in AFF industries recorded an increase of 13.9% from 1.01 ratio in 2020 to 1.15 ratio in 2021. This means that for every peso spent in 2021, the AFF industries generated an income of PhP1.15.
Plant Propagation industry group posted the highest revenue per expense ratio of 1.27 followed by support services to forestry with revenue per expense ratio of 1.27 and animal production with revenue per expense ratio of 1.18.
Eastern Visayas, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), and Central Luzon posted the highest revenue per expense ratio of 1.41, 1.26, and 1.24, respectively. Establishments in CAR generated a revenue per expense ratio of 1.09.
Average annual compensation per paid employee declines by 4.8%
The average annual compensation per paid employee in the AFF section decreased by 4.8% from an average annual compensation of PhP181,581 per paid employee in 2020 to PhP172,943 in 2021.
Figure 5. Top Five Industry Groups with Highest Average Annual
Compensation, Philippines: 2021
Among industry groups, growing of perennial crops posted the highest average annual compensation per paid employee with PhP212,457. This was followed by fishing, and animal production with PhP177,455 and PhP174,156, respectively. Growing of non-perennial crops posted the lowest average annual compensation per paid employee with PhP76,984.
By region, BARMM posted the highest average annual compensation per paid employee with PhP290,844. This was followed by Central Luzon with PhP258,133 and NCR with PhP235,820. CAR had average annual compensation of PhP118,976 per paid employee.
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VILLAFE P. ALIBUYOG
Regional Director
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TECHNICAL NOTES
Establishment is defined as an economic unit under a single ownership or control which engages in one or predominantly one kind of economic activity at a single fixed location.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (Section A of the 2009 Philippine Standard Industrial Classification) includes the exploitation of vegetal and animal natural resources, comprising the activities of growing crops, raising and breeding of animals, harvesting of timber and other plants, animals or animal products from a farm or their natural habitats.
Growing of non-perennial crops includes the growing of plants that do not last for more than two growing seasons. Included is the growing of these plants for the purpose of seed production.
Growing of perennial crops includes the growing of plants that last for more than two growing seasons, either each season or growing continuously. Included is the growing of these plants for the purpose of seed production.
Plant propagation includes the production of vegetative planting materials including cuttings, suckers and seedlings for direct plant propagation or to create plant grafting stock into which selected scion is grafted for eventual planting to produce crops.
Animal production includes raising (farming) and breeding of all animals, except aquatic animals. It includes raising (farming) of domestic animals, such as carabao, cattle, sheep, goats, deer, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, etc.; raising (farming) of poultry such as chicken, ducks, quails, etc., provision of feed lot services; production of raw milk, bovine semen; production of butter, cheese, other dairy products in the farm; sheep shearing by the sheep owner; and stud farming.
Support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities includes activities incidental to agricultural production and activities similar to agriculture not undertaken for production purposes, done on a fee or contract basis. Also included are post-harvest crop activities, aimed at preparing agricultural products for the primary market.
Silviculture and other forestry activities includes growing of standing timber: planting, replanting, transplanting, thinning and conserving of forests and timber tracts, growing of coppice, pulpwood and fire wood.
Logging includes production of roundwood for forest-based manufacturing industries, production of roundwood use in an unprocessed form such as pit-props, fence posts and utility poles, gathering and production of fire wood, and production of charcoal in the forest (using traditional method). The output of this activity can take the form of logs, chips or fire wood.
Support services to forestry includes the activity in support of forestry operation on a fee or contact basis. This includes forestry service activities such as forestry inventories, forest management consulting services, timber evaluation, forest fire fighting and protection, and forest pest control, and logging service activities such as transport of logs within the forest.
Fishing includes capture fishery, i.e. the hunting, collecting and gathering activities directed at removing or collecting live wild aquatic organisms (predominantly fish, mollusks and crustaceans) including plants from the oceanic, coastal or inland waters for human consumption and other purposes by hand or more usually by various types of fishing gear such as nets, lines and stationary traps. Such activities can be conducted on the intertidal shoreline (e.g. collection of mollusks such as mussels and oysters) or shore based netting, or from home-made dugouts or more commonly using commercially made boats in inshore, coastal waters or offshore waters.
Unlike in aquaculture (group 032), the aquatic resource being captured is usually common property resource irrespective of whether the harvest from this resource is undertaken with or without exploitation rights. Such activities also include fishing restocked water bodies.
Aquaculture includes the production process involving the culturing or farming (including harvesting) of aquatic organisms (fish, mollusks, crustaceans, plants, crocodile, alligators and amphibians) using techniques designed to increase the production of the organisms in question beyond the natural capacity of the environment (for example regular stocking, feeding and protection from predators).
Culturing/farming refers to the rearing up to their juvenile and/or adult phase under captive conditions of the above organisms. In addition, aquaculture also encompasses individual, corporate or state ownership of the individual organisms throughout the rearing or culture stage, up to and including harvesting.
Total Employment (TE) refers to the total number of persons who work in or for the establishment as of 15 November, 2021. This includes paid employees, working owners, unpaid workers, and all employees who work full-time or part-time including seasonal workers. Also included are persons on short-term leave such as those on sick, vacation or annual leaves, and on strike.
Expense is the cost incurred by the establishment during the year whether paid or payable. This is treated on a consumed basis. Valuation is at purchaser price including taxes and other charges, net of rebates, returns, and allowances. Goods and services received by the establishment from other establishments of the same enterprise are valued as though purchased.
Paid employees are all persons working in the establishment and receiving pay, as well as those working away from the establishment paid by and under the control of the establishment. Included are all employees on sick leave, paid vacation, or holiday. Excluded are consultants, home workers, receiving pure commissions only, and workers on indefinite leave.
Revenue or Income is the cash received and receivables for goods/products and by-products sold and services rendered. Valuation is at producer prices (ex-establishment) net of discounts and allowances, including duties and taxes but excluding subsidies.
