total of 1,210 species of plants are relevant to agriculture with a variety of uses and values. Some have food values (477 species), feed values (363 species), medicinal/herbal values (627 species), and ornamental values (201 species). In addition, 35 species are considered as fiber crops while an undetermined number have industrial importance.

The National Plant Germplasm Resources Laboratory (NPGRL) in UP Los Banos, as of December 1994, maintains a total of 32,446 accessions of 396 species, while the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PHILRICE), as of 1992, maintains 12 species of wild rice from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) germplasm center and from its collections in the different parts of the country. The germplasm collection of the National Tobacco Authority (NTA) has increased to 488 accessions in 1995.

The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) reported that between 1980 and 1991, there was a substantial decrease in the population of 61 economically important crops such as coconut, coffee, fiber crops particularly abaca, kenaf, piña, and ramie, and mulberry while banana, cacao, rubber, and ipil-ipil dramatically increased in population. On the other hand, the domestic animal population in 1991 totaled 2,766,000 carabaos, 1,991,000 cattle, 286,000 horses, 7479,000 hogs, 2,403,000 goats, and 56,000 other domesticated species. Aggregate poultry population, which includes chicken, ducks, quails, geese, turkeys, and pigeons, total 101,235,000 heads. Only carabaos showed a substantial decrease in numbers.