Where to sell ube in Antique

Yes. Philippine Ube buys directly from farms and cooperatives in Antique, with no trader in between. PSA recorded 81 tonnes from Antique in 2025, ranking it #29 of 72 producing provinces. Peak harvest is Q4 (43.7%). Apply as a supplier partner and our sourcing team responds within two to three weeks.

You can sell to a viajero or trader at the farm, at a local wet market or bagsakan, to a halaya or processed-food maker, through a cooperative, or directly to a buyer who contracts ahead of the season. We are the last of those. There is no minimum to apply and you do not need a registered business; for an ongoing supply relationship we work with individual farms from 500 kg and with cooperatives at any volume.

The Philippine Statistics Authority recorded 81 tonnes of ube produced in Antique in 2025, from 6.81 hectares planted. That is 0.67% of national output and ranks the province 29th in the Philippines by volume.

Antique ranks 51th by area planted but 29th by volume produced — it punches 22 places above its land base. Per hectare, this is one of the more efficient places in the country to grow ube.

Antique volume concentrates in Q4 — October–December — which carries 43.7% of the province's recorded output, averaged across 2023–2025. This is measured on volume produced, not area planted, so it reflects when tubers come out of the ground rather than when they go in.

Yes, but the economics change below a certain size. For Antique we work with individual growers from 500 kg and with associations or cooperatives at any volume. Below 500 kg the sensible route is to consolidate with neighbouring growers first — we can help coordinate that.

We buy Dioscorea alata (greater yam) — the purple-fleshed ube used for halaya, powder and paste. Kinampay and its local selections are preferred where available for their colour and aroma, but we buy standard local purple types as well. We do not buy Dioscorea esculenta (tugui) or white-fleshed yam.