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TABLE 7.8 Complementarity of international ports in rice subsystems

Cluster International port Remarks

1. Cagayan Valley None

2. Central Luzon Subic in Zambales Produces up to 13 percent

of total national paddy
output
Major supplier to Metro
Manila

3. Southern Luzon Batangas Port in Batangas Produces up to 17 percent

City of total national paddy

output
Supplies Metro Manila
and Northern Luzon

4. Bicol Region-Eastern Tabaco Port and Legaspi Produces about 6 percent

Visayas Port in Albay and of total national paddy

Tacloban Port in Leyte output

Supplies nearby provinces
and those of Eastern
Visayas

5. Western Visayas Iloilo Port in Iloilo Produces up to 12.2

percent of total national
paddy output
Supplies Metro Manila
and parts of Southern
Luzon.

6. Central Visayas Cebu Port in Cebu Produces about 2 percent

of total national paddy
output
Barometer for the overall
rice supply-demand
situation

7. Mindanao Davao City Port and Self-sufficient in rice

General Santos Port Supplies nearby provinces

in South Cotabato, in the Visayas

Cagayan de Oro Port in
Misamis Oriental, and
Zamboanga City Port

8. Ilocos Region and parts Poro Point in La Union Experiences deficit periods

of Central Luzon in rice

Served by Central Luzon