date:Aug 14, 2019
The Philippine's banana output shrank by an annualized rate of 2.83 percent to 4.375 million metric tons (MMT), as growers harvested smaller and poorer-quality fruits due to the dry spell, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.
The latest figure was 127,000 metric tons lower than the 4.502 MMT recorded in the January-to-June period of 2018, data from the PSA showed.
The PSA said the lingering effects of typhoons Ompong and Rosita, which struck the country late last year, caused harves