Where to sell ube in Southern Leyte

Yes. Philippine Ube buys directly from farms and cooperatives in Southern Leyte, with no trader in between. PSA recorded 10 tonnes from Southern Leyte in 2025, ranking it #57 of 72 producing provinces. Peak harvest is Q1 (44.6%). 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 10 tonnes of ube produced in Southern Leyte in 2025, from 12.30 hectares planted. That is 0.08% of national output and ranks the province 57th in the Philippines by volume.

Southern Leyte ranks 41th by area planted but only 57th by volume — 16 places lower than its land base suggests. There is more ground under ube here than the output reflects, which is a yield gap rather than a land shortage.

Southern Leyte volume concentrates in Q1 — January–March — which carries 44.6% 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.

Largely yes. Most Philippine ube comes off the ground around the December-to-March window. Southern Leyte plants mainly in the first semester, which puts a share of its harvest outside that peak. Off-cycle volume is worth more to a processor than peak volume, because it fills the months when everyone else has nothing.

Yes, but the economics change below a certain size. For Southern Leyte 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.