A P5 TO P20 reduction in the prices of selected agricultural products were recorded at the Bankerohan Public Market based on the price watch issued by Philippine Statistics Authority-Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (PSA-BAS) in Davao Region last January 16.
PSA-BAS Davao region recorded a rollback in the prices of pork lean meat, dressed chicken, ampalaya, sitao, carrots, and habitchuelas.
Data showed that carrots and habitchuelas had the highest rollback in prices at P20. Carrots are priced at P50 to P60 a kilo as of January 16 from P70 to P80 a kilo last January 9 while habitchuelas are now priced at P50 to P60/kg from P70 to P80/kg.
Ampalaya went down by P10 as of Friday, it is now at P60 to P70/kg from P70 to P80/kg.
The prices of pork lean meat and dressed chicken went down by P5. Pork lean meat is at P160 to P170/kg from P165 to P175/kg while dressed chicken is at P123 to P130/kg from P128 to P135/kg.
Sitao went down by P5 to P10, from P65 a kilo to P80 a kilo to P60 to P70/kg.
The agency also noted a P5 a kilo increase in the prices of tomato and white potato and a P5 to 10 a kilo for eggplant (P30 to P40/kg from P25 to P30/kg).
As of January 16, tomato is now at P30 to P35/kg as compared to P25 to P30/kg on January 9 while white potato increased to P70 to P80/kg from P60 to 70/kg.
The price of rice has remained stable with well-milled rice at P41 to P46/kg, regular milled at P35 to P40/kg, and NFA rice at P27 to P32/kg.