Province of Tarlac

Tarlac has 17 municipalities and 1 city grouped into three (3) Congressional Districts as seen on the table on the left side. Tarlac Province has 511 barangays distributed within the 17 municipalities and lone city. Tarlac City is the most urbanized, in terms of services, and has the largest built-up area. But unlike cities of similar development in the country, it remains to be predominantly agriculture in character as evidenced by the large tracts of agricultural land and open space surrounding the Poblacion.

Tarlac is basically an Agricultural based economy, located in the heart of Central Luzon. The 112,997.57 hectares of land are concentrated on agricultural production. Rice and Corn are the top 2 commodities planted in the province with 2 to 3 cropping a year. With this vast of land concentrated on agricultural, Tarlac is being known for the lowland vegetables such as Tomato, Eggplant, String Beans, Ampalaya, Okra, Pechay, Mustard, this are planted during the onset of dry season (2nd cropping alternate for the major crops). Root Crops planted are Sweet Potato, Gabi, Ube, Turnips, Onion, Garlic (upland areas) One of crop being exported to Japan is the "Japanese Okra" situated in the Municipality of Lapaz. Inland Fish production is also being practiced, were Tilapia and Milkfish are produced. Orchards occupies 10,498.65 hectares planted with the local fruit trees, star apple, tamarind, avocado and the most common sweet mangoes which are exported to ASEAN countries. The province is also known in the production of Sugarcane, with production area of 11,035.90 hectares, with the presence of the LUISITA Sugar Mills located in Tarlac City.