MANILA, Philippines — Typhoons that came late last year failed to dampen the Philippine agriculture sector, which significantly recovered in 2017 after suffering from a decline in 2016, the statistics agency reported Friday.
MANILA, Philippines — Typhoons that came late last year failed to dampen the Philippine agriculture sector, which significantly recovered in 2017 after suffering from a decline in 2016, the statistics agency reported Friday.
Agriculture posted a 2.20 percent growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2017, rebounding from the 1.09 percent drop in the same period in 2016.
That brought the local farm sector’s full-year expansion to 3.95 percent, a big jump from the 1.4 percent decline registered a year ago.
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