Philippine agricultural output grew at an annual pace of 0.7 percent in the third quarter, slower than the year-ago rise of 2.3 percent, led by crops and fisheries subsectors, the statistics agency said on Monday. The country’s crops output – which accounted for around 53 percent of the agricultural sector’s total production – rose 4.8 percent as the paddy rice harvest grew 15.2 percent, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. Fisheries output rose 1.9 percent, while livestock, hit by the African swine fever outbreak, contracted by 7.6 percent and poultry production went down by 3.8 percent.

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