The Philippines produced 102,790.84 tonnes of potatoes in 2024, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). That is 2,736.24 tonnes, or 2.73%, more than in 2023. The national average yield was 16.10 tonnes per hectare, almost the same as 16.08 tonnes in 2023. The PSA office for the Cordillera Administrative Region released the data in August 2025.
Potato growing in the Philippines is highly concentrated. Most of the crop comes from a few upland provinces. The PSA lists the main provinces:
- Benguet: 76,487.33 tonnes on 3,625 hectares, a yield of 21.10 tonnes per hectare and a 74% share of national output.
- Davao del Sur: 10,791.81 tonnes on 1,308.95 hectares.
- Mountain Province: 8,455.86 tonnes, with a yield of 11.46 tonnes per hectare.
- Bukidnon: a yield of 10.97 tonnes per hectare.
Yields vary widely. Benguet reached 21.10 tonnes per hectare, the best result in the country. In Ifugao, also in the Cordillera, the yield was only 2.76 tonnes per hectare. Davao del Sur averaged about 8.2 tonnes per hectare.
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The same release shows a clear price season. Farm-gate prices were above normal from October to December. They were highest in October and lowest in April. In the first quarter of 2025, Benguet produced 14,830 tonnes of potatoes, which made potato its third-largest crop by volume after cabbage and Chinese cabbage.
The PSA release is not fully clear on land use. It gives a national harvested area of 6,625.55 hectares in 2024 and 6,222.03 hectares in 2023, but calls this a 2.58% rise. Other figures in the same release point to a national area close to 6,400 hectares.
Why it matters
With about 100,000 tonnes a year, the Philippines is a small potato producer, and one province holds three quarters of the crop. Any weather event, disease or road problem in Benguet affects national supply quickly. The price peak in the last quarter shows when local supply is short.
The wide yield gap between Benguet and other provinces is also important. Mindanao provinces such as Davao del Sur and Bukidnon already grow potatoes, but with much lower yields. Better seed and crop care there could spread production risk and raise output without new land.
Photo: Vegetable terraces in Mankayan, Benguet, Philippines (illustrative). Patrickroque01 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
