Manila, April 14 -- A strong agricultural production and the massive campaign on renewable energy have helped slow down the inflation rate in Iloilo.

Jerry Dolutan, chief statistical specialist of the Philippine Statistics Authority-Iloilo, presented in a media conference on Tuesday that the province's inflation in March slowed down to 3.4 percent from 3.8 percent in the preceding month.

The deceleration was driven by housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels with an inflation rate of -0.6 percent from 5.9 percent; food and non-alcoholic beverages with 0.2 percent inflation from 4.7 percent; and personal care, and miscellaneous goods and services, which recorded a 4.7 percent inflation rate from 5 percent in the preceding month....