17 January 2025, Cotabato City — The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Regional Statistical Services Office Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RSSO BARMM) successfully conducted the three-day Second Level Training on the 2025 Rice and Corn Stocks Survey: Household and Commercial from 14 to 16 January 2025 held at RSSO BARMM, Cotabato City.

The training was headed by the resource persons Samid R. Masukat, Statistical Analyst RSSO-BARMM, Abdullah D. Guro, Statistical Analyst PSA-Lanao del Sur, and Norhanna B. Ong, Assistant Statistician Maguindanao del Norte. The participants were provincial Focal persons from PSA-Basilan, PSA-Maguindanao, PSA-SULU, and PSA-Tawi-Tawi.

The Rice and Corn Stocks Survey: Household and Commercial is a monthly survey that assesses the current rice and corn stock inventories in farming and non-farming households and commercial establishments nationwide. The Crops Statistics Division (CSD) of the Economic Sector Statistics Service (ESSS) implemented the enhanced RCSS: H&C in January 2023. The survey covers all provinces of the country, including the National Capital Region.

This survey aims to generate rice and corn stock inventories for the household and commercial sectors at the national and subnational levels and assess the stock levels compared with the same period in the previous year and the previous month.

OIC RD Tula emphasized the importance of the data from the various cereals’ surveys, in particular the data on supply and stocks of the grains, as these are our planners whether there is enough supply in the market or is a need to import from other countries and by how much.

Approved for Release:

ENGR. AKAN G. TULA
OIC-Regional Director