MANILA — The country’s total rice stocks inventory rose to 2.70 million metric tons as of 01 December 2025, marking a 5.8 percent increase from 2.56 million metric tons in the same period last year, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed.

Month-on-month, rice stocks increased by 5.9 percent from 2.55 million metric tons recorded in November 2025.

Year-on-year, rice inventories posted increases from National Food Authority (NFA) depositories by 216.7 percent and households by 14.3 percent, while the commercial sector registered an annual decline of 19.3 percent.

Compared with November 2025 levels, rice stocks from the commercial sector rose by 29.4 percent, while inventories from households and NFA depositories declined by 10.7 percent and 1.0 percent, respectively.

Of the total rice stocks in December 2025, 45.2 percent came from the commercial sector, 38.0 percent from households, and 16.9 percent from NFA depositories.

Meanwhile, the country’s total corn stocks inventory reached 675.00 thousand metric tons as of 01 December 2025, up 23.1 percent from 548.31 thousand metric tons in the same period of 2024.

On a month-on-month basis, corn stocks declined by 14.6 percent from 790.16 thousand metric tons recorded in November 2025.

Annual increases in corn inventories were recorded from households by 38.8 percent and from the commercial sector by 20.9 percent.

However, compared with the previous month, corn stocks from households fell by 27.9 percent, while those from the commercial sector declined by 12.0 percent.

As of December 2025, 86.4 percent of the total corn stocks inventory came from the commercial sector, while 13.6 percent were held by households, the PSA said.