The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador has published a second release of preliminary findings from the Fifth Agricultural Census and First Fisheries Census 2025, expanding coverage from livestock and fisheries to basic grains, permanent and semi-permanent crops, and aquaculture. The results summarise crop areas, production volumes, geographic concentration by department and the main destinations of output, including splits between household self-consumption and sales. For maize, the census recorded 293,458 manzanas harvested between May 2024 and April 2025 and production of around 10.9 million quintales, with Ahuachapán (12.3%) and Santa Ana (10.6%) the largest contributors; hybrid seed was used on 75% of the planted area and 49.5% of output went to self-consumption. Bean production totalled 996.2 thousand quintales, led by Santa Ana (21.1%), with 50.3% destined for self-consumption; rice production was concentrated in La Libertad (44.6%) and Chalatenango (27.4%) and was primarily for sale (96.9%). The release also reports 1.5 million quintales of maicillo (grain and seed), mainly used as animal feed (43.2%), and provides detailed coffee and sugarcane statistics, including 105,741 manzanas cultivated in coffee (just over 4 million quintales of coffee cherry) and 6.7 million short tons of sugarcane, most of which was destined for sugar production (97.9%). Aquaculture output was reported at about 8.2 million pounds of tilapia and 5.2 million pounds of shrimp, with production concentrated in a small number of departments and largely oriented to sales. The census was conducted with a fully digital approach and received technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador notes that the information can be accessed through its statistical geoportal.

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