Nueva Vizcaya has been officially declared the ginger capital of the Philippines and will soon get bigger and more focused investment support from the Department of Agriculture (DA), the DA said.
The naming of Nueva Vizcaya as the country’s ginger capital was formalized through DA Administrative Order No. 8 series of 2025., signed by Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. last week, the DA said in a statement on Sunday.
The channelling of resources toward boosting the production of the high-value crop in the Cagayan Valley region will definitely follow the issuance of DAO No. 8, series of 2025, Tiu Laurel said in the statement.
“This recognition is not just a title, it’s a commitment to deliver support where it truly matters. Ginger is valued both for its culinary and medicinal uses, and with proper backing from the DA, it can significantly improve product value addition to uplift the incomes of smallholder farmers in Nueva Vizcaya and across Cagayan Valley,” Tiu Laurel was quoted as saying in the DA statement.
The DA has mapped out a program to improve ginger production through better access to improved technologies, infrastructure, and markets, to unlock the full potential of crops “that have long been underutilized,” Tiu Laurel said.
Nueva Vizcaya is home to around 5,010 ginger growers, and it recorded an average yield of 7.4 metric tons (MT) per hectare in 2024, the DA said.
Beyond production, Nueva Vizcaya has been serving as a major source of ginger for key trading hubs in Northern and Southern Luzon, and Metro Manila, facilitating the movement of some 14,753 MT in 2024.
Citing data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, the DA said that Nueva Vizcaya led the country’s ginger production in 2024, and harvested 7,140.76 metric tons from 933 hectares of land. This volume was equivalent to 22.8 percent of the Philippines’ total ginger production at 31,361.27 MT in 2024.
DA has described Nueva Vizcaya as an agricultural stronghold which spans 481,388 hectares and also produces rice, corn, onion, garlic, tomatoes, melon, and mango crops.
