MALAYBALAY CITY (BukidnonNews.net/ 09 July 2025)—The latest Ceedmo monitoring on July 4 noted an increase in the prices of pork and chicken sold in the public markets, and price decrease in fish, rice, and some vegetables.
Meat and fish
Compared to the monitoring of the City Economic Enterprise Development and Management Office last June, the prices of pork early this month increased by 10 pesos with pork ham, loin, and belly now costing Php 380 per kilo. Chicken prices also hiked by 10 pesos such as wings and assorted cuts (now both Php 230), chicken head (Php 80), and neck (Php 150). Chicken backbone (Php 150) increased by 20 pesos while gizzard (Php 220) and chicken legs (Php 230) sharply increased by 30 and 110 pesos, respectively.
Beef prices remained the same with brisket still being sold at Php 480 per kilo, for example.
As for fish and other seafood, there is a 20-peso price decrease of several fish such as karaw (yellow-fin tuna; now at Php 200 per kilo), borot (mackerel scad; Php 180) as well as shrimp (Php 380) and squid (Php 180). Lapu-lapu (red grouper) decreased by 70 pesos from Php 550 per kilo last month to only Php 480 per kilo this week.
However, there’s a 10 to 20 pesos increase in the price of budlisan (skipjack tuna) and katambak (ornate emperor fish) at Php 140 and Php 380 per kilo, respectively.
Fish prices that remained the same were as follows: tilapia and bangus (milkfish) both sold at Php 220 per kilo; galunggong (shortfin scad, Php 240); maranay (anchovy, Php 250), kitong (rabbitfish, Php 350), pompano (Php 450), and malasugui (sailfish, Php 600).
Rice, vegetables, and spices
As for rice, only the masipag variety had increased from Php 40 to Php 45 per kilo. Most dropped their prices such as 7 tonner (Php 46 to Php 40), bigante (Php 44 to Php 42), jasmine (Php 49 to Php 48) and pilit or glutinous rice (Php 58 to Php 55).
Meanwhile the price of red rice and white and yellow corn grits remained the same at Php 48 and Php 33 per kilo, respectively.
The prices of vegetables mainly dipped. There was a sharp 35-peso decrease in sweet potatoes from Php 70 to 35 and a 10-peso drop in upo (bottle gourd, Php 50) and both string and baguio beans (Php 60). There was also a 5-peso and 30-peso dips in the prices of cabbage (Php 85) and broccoli (Php 220).
There’s no change in the price of alugbati (spinach), malunggay (moringa), and kangkong (water spinach) which are still sold at Php 10 per bundle. Radish and okra are still Php 70 per kilo; potato and ampalaya (bitter gourd) still at Php 80; and carrots at Php 90.
As for spices, there was a sharp 70-peso decrease in chili panigang from Php 150 to 80 per kilo while bell pepper increased from Php 170 to Php 200.
The prices of spring onions (Php 80), garlic and white onion (Php 180) and red onion (Php 200) remained the same, although the latter was priced 50 pesos lower in May.