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The Department of Agriculture (DA) will attempt to facilitate the shipment of as much as 30,000 hogs from Visayas and Mindanao to Luzon in order to address what it calls “artificial” price increase of pork being experienced now in Metro Manila.  The weekly shipments will commence next week...

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), about 4,958 metric tons, or nearly 5 million kilograms of meat was produced in 2016, with pork in the lead. This translates as to how much pork Filipinos consume, almost on the daily, and how high the demand is for the commodity. ...

Most Filipino dishes such as adobo, sinigang, and menudo have pork as a key ingredient in them. This shows how Filipinos love consuming the protein and gives aspiring pig raisers a glimpse of how large the demand is for the meat.  A webinar broadcasted by the Agricultural Training Institute in...

By Patricia Bianca S. Taculao  Venturing into pig farming can be a profitable business due to the high demand of pork in the market. Yet it requires the right know-how along with the necessities in terms of housing, food, and such to make the operation work.  In the previous article ,...

LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte - Livestock raisers are continuously benefitting from the animal dispersal program of the Ilocos Norte government amid COVID-19 pandemic. The provincial government is sustaining the program to help the local livestock raisers generate more income during the crisis....