Pig Price Per Kg in the Philippines 2026 (By Region)

As of July 2026, a live pig sells for roughly ₱180-₱190/kg liveweight at farmgate (SINAG's industry average as of May 2026; eFeedLink trade quotes run ₱183-₱193). PSA's last official figure is ₱179.23/kg for March 2026. A finished 95 kg pig is worth about ₱17,600 before the biyahero's cut, and with production cost sitting around ₱180/kg, the average farm is selling at close to what it spent. Farmgate never climbed back to the ₱210/kg DA floor, and it has not been above ₱200 since the middle of 2025.

Last verified 12 July 2026 against PSA OpenSTAT, DA bulletins, and SINAG figures. Next review: October 2026. Always confirm this week's number with your local viajero before you sell.

Farmgate liveweight price is the peso amount you actually receive per kilogram when selling a live pig at the farm or local assembly point. Before slaughter, before processing, before retail markup. This is the number that decides whether your batch makes money or loses it. If you don't track it in your area, you're selling blind, and in a market that dropped ₱42/kg between June 2025 and January 2026, that is how farmers lose whole batches of profit.

Current Farmgate Prices by Region

One thing first, so nobody gets misled. PSA's "hogs for slaughter" farmgate series is the only official one. It is monthly, it breaks out by region, and it runs a couple of months behind. The latest release is ₱179.23/kg liveweight for March 2026 (PSA OpenSTAT), after ₱172.56 in January and ₱176.31 in February. That puts the Q1 2026 average at ₱176.03/kg, down from ₱182.83 in Q4 2025 and ₱191.51 in Q3 2025.

Where it actually trades today is a little above the PSA print: SINAG's industry average was ₱180-₱190/kg as of May 2026, and eFeedLink's trade quotes ran ₱183-₱193/kg. Call it ₱185. Not ₱220.

The regional pattern is also not the one every guide repeats. Luzon does not automatically pay more.

Those are hard PSA numbers for March 2026, not a survey of ours. The rest of the regions sit inside that ₱150-₱210 band, and you should pull yours straight from OpenSTAT rather than trust a range someone typed into a blog. What the spread really tracks is local supply, ASF movement status, and how many buyers compete in your province. Distance from Manila matters much less than the old "Luzon premium" story claims. Skip to "how to check your current local price" if that is all you need.

Wherever you sit in that table, the arithmetic is tight, and it is the same arithmetic in Negros as in South Cotabato. Production cost is running about ₱180/kg. If your breakeven is ₱150/kg and farmgate in your area is ₱179/kg, you clear ₱29/kg, roughly ₱2,750 on a 95 kg pig. If your breakeven is ₱180/kg, you are working for free right now. That is not a warning about some future crash. That is today. Hibal-i ang imong breakeven antes mobaligya.

Why Prices Differ by Region

Distance from Manila explains less than people think. Cordillera and Eastern Visayas both out-paid Central Luzon in March 2026. Five things actually drive the gap:

1. Logistics cost. Shipping a live pig from Bukidnon to Manila costs ₱15-25/kg in freight, handling, and shrinkage. That's money the farmer doesn't get. Even selling to Cebu from interior Visayas adds ₱5-10/kg in transport. Freight is a real cost, but it is not a Manila premium: Central Luzon farmgate was ₱178.41/kg in March 2026, within a peso of the national average.

2. Local demand density. Cebu has a massive lechon industry. Davao has Kadayawan festival demand. Iloilo has strong institutional buying from hotels and restaurants. These local demand centers push prices up. If you're near one, you benefit.

3. Supply concentration. Regions X (Northern Mindanao, 14%) and IV-A (CALABARZON, 14%) produce the most pigs. High supply in Bukidnon means more competition among sellers, which pushes farmgate down locally.

4. Buyer type. Who you sell to matters as much as where you are. Against a ₱185/kg trade average, biyaheros (traveling traders) come in under it, roughly ₱170-₱185/kg. Lechon operators pay ₱10-₱30/kg over the local biyahero quote for the sizes they need (25-40 kg for lechon de leche, 70-90 kg for full lechon). Institutional buyers and direct-to-restaurant sales pay a similar premium but demand consistency. See the best month to sell for timing strategy.

5. ASF zone status. Under the DA's November 2025 zoning rules, every area sits in one of five tiers: red (infected), pink (buffer), yellow (surveillance), light green (protected), green (ASF-free). Pigs in red and pink zones can't move out freely, so supply gets trapped locally and farmgate drops. Negros at ₱163.19/kg in March 2026, ₱16/kg under the national average, is that effect in one number. And the map is moving again: ASF came back to the Visayas from late June 2026. San Enrique in Negros Occidental was confirmed on 23 June, with 1,902 hog deaths province-wide. Barotac Viejo in Iloilo followed on 29 June, its first case in four years, then Bacolod and La Libertad in Negros Oriental on 1 July. Cebu banned Negros hogs and pork on 7 July under EO 39. Capiz red-zoned five LGUs and on 10 July banned pork entry from every province. Check your barangay's current tier with your municipal vet or the BAI ASF portal before you plan a sale, don't assume last quarter's status still holds.

Historical Quarterly Trend: The Full Story

The 2023-2024 rows are indicative ranges reconstructed from PSA bulletins and trade press. Everything from Q1 2025 on is hard PSA data. The last row is a trade average from SINAG and eFeedLink, not PSA, because PSA had not published Q2 2026 as of 12 July 2026.

From 2023 to mid-2025 the trend was a strong recovery. Farmgate climbed from the ₱160s to a record ₱212.58/kg in Q1 2025, up 16% year-on-year, and peaked at ₱214.52/kg in June 2025. A resurgent African Swine Fever wave plus La Niña had cut Q1 pig output 3.7%. Then it reversed and stayed reversed. Down through Q3 and Q4, bottoming at ₱172.56/kg in January 2026, and only crawling back to ₱179.23 by March. No month since June 2025 has printed above ₱200, and no month has ever touched the ₱210 floor.

What Caused the Late 2025 Price Crash

Three things happened at once:

Record pork imports. Total meat imports in 2025 hit a record 1.64 million metric tons. Pork alone accounted for 851,760 MT of that. January 2026 imports continued at 143.84 million kg, up 4.23% year-on-year.

EO 62 tariff reduction. Executive Order 62 kept pork tariffs low at 15% for in-quota and 25% for out-of-quota imports, well below the pre-EO 62 levels. The goal was cheaper pork for consumers. Instead, imported pork landed at around ₱120/kg, below the production cost of most domestic farmers, while liempo still sold near ₱400/kg at the wet market. Alfred Ng, vice-chairman of a national pork-producers' federation, argued tariffs are meant "to protect local farmers from unfair trade and the dumping of subsidized agricultural products."

Seasonal mismatch. The import flood coincided with the post-holiday demand drop in Q3 2025. Worst possible timing for domestic producers. Many backyard farmers in Visayas and Mindanao were forced to sell at or below cost.

What's Happening Now (July 2026)

The recovery that the early-2026 headlines promised did not arrive. Farmgate bottomed at ₱172.56/kg in January, crawled back to ₱179.23 by March, and as of May 2026 the industry average was ₱180-₱190/kg (SINAG), with trade quotes at ₱183-₱193 (eFeedLink). Production cost is about ₱180/kg, a figure SINAG and NatFed reach separately. Read that again. At the national average, the typical farm is selling a pig for what it cost to raise it. Plan your next batch on that assumption, not on a ₱220 number you saw in a table somewhere.

What is holding the lid down:

• The DA's ₱210/kg liveweight floor (4 November 2025, with SINAG, NFHFI, and PROPORK) has never been reached. Not one month of PSA data, not one region. It is a target with no enforcement behind it, so do not budget around it.
• Imports keep filling the gap the herd left. 851,760 MT of pork landed in 2025, and EO 116 (19 May 2026) quadrupled the tariff-quota volume to 204,210 MT. Policy moved against producers, not for them. Industry groups are still lobbying to restore the pork tariff to 40%, with no decision yet.
• The national herd is 8.70M head as of 31 March 2026, the lowest first quarter since 1994 and about 31% below the 12.70M pre-ASF peak. A tight herd has still produced no pricing power, because imports arrive faster than any rebuild.
• Feed rose ₱1-₱2/kg through 2026 and no miller has announced a rollback. Premium grower and finisher runs ₱34.90-₱38.20/kg (₱1,747-₱1,910 per 50 kg bag) as of 12 July 2026, and feed is roughly 57% of operating cost (PIDS).
• ASF is back in the Visayas since late June 2026. That traps supply inside the affected provinces and pushes local farmgate down. It does not lift the national price.

Margins are thin to nonexistent at the average. If your cost per kilo is above the mid-₱170s, do not add heads. Fix the cost side first.

Liveweight vs Dressed Weight: Converting the Price

Most farmgate quotes are liveweight, the whole live pig on the scale. Buyers who pay by dressed weight (carcass after slaughter, bled, dehaired, eviscerated) are quoting a different number, and confusing the two is how farmers get shorted at the gate.

A Philippine market pig dresses out at roughly 72-78% of liveweight (native pigs run a little lower, well-finished commercial pigs a little higher). So a 95 kg live pig yields about 68-74 kg dressed.

To compare a dressed-weight offer against a liveweight one, multiply the dressed price by the dressing percentage:

• Dressed offer ₱240/kg × 0.74 = ₱177.60/kg liveweight equivalent
• Liveweight offer ₱185/kg ÷ 0.74 = ₱250/kg dressed equivalent

So a biyahero offering ₱240/kg "dressed" is paying you less than a neighbor offering ₱185/kg liveweight, and at a ₱180/kg production cost that difference is your whole margin. Always ask which basis the quote is on before you agree, and weigh your own pigs first so the buyer's scale isn't the only number in the room. If you don't have a scale, the heart-girth tape method gets you within a few kilos.

How to Use This Data: Practical Decisions

Regional price data is only worth something if it changes a decision. Five it should change:

1. Know your personal breakeven. A farmgate price of ₱179/kg means nothing until you know whether that's profit or loss for your operation. With the industry's average cost sitting at ₱180/kg, half the farms in the country are on the wrong side of that line and don't know it.

2. Time your sales. The Christmas window (November-December) normally adds ₱15-25/kg over the lean months. A 95 kg pig sold at ₱195/kg in December against ₱175/kg in January is a ₱1,900 difference, and on today's margins that swing is the difference between a profit and nothing. Just don't treat it as certain: Q4 2025 came in below Q3 2025 because imports drowned the holiday demand. Plan your batch cycle to finish in November, then watch the import numbers.

3. Know your buyers. Biyaheros are convenient but pay lowest. If you can sell direct to lechon operators or small butchers, the extra ₱10-20/kg on 10 heads is ₱9,500-₱19,000 more per batch. At a ₱180/kg cost, that premium is not a bonus, it is the margin. Build those relationships before your pigs are ready.

4. Watch import policy. It is the single biggest driver of what you get paid. EO 116 (19 May 2026) quadrupled the tariff-quota volume to 204,210 MT, so the recent move has been toward more imports, not fewer. Industry groups want the pork tariff back at 40%; nothing has been decided. Follow the DA announcements, because a tariff decision will move your farmgate more than anything you do in your own pens.

5. Don't chase Manila prices from Mindanao. There is no Manila premium left to chase. Central Luzon farmgate was ₱178.41/kg in March 2026, within a peso of the national average, and freight to Luzon still eats ₱15-25/kg. Find premium local buyers (lechon, institutional) instead. The exception is a consistent Luzon buyer relationship with reliable payment.

Visayas/Mindanao Farmer Playbook: Where the Money Actually Is

If you're raising pigs in Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, Iloilo, Davao, or Bukidnon, drop the idea that Luzon is where the money is. Eastern Visayas out-paid Central Luzon by ₱28/kg in March 2026. Some provinces genuinely are on the low side, Negros at ₱163.19 and SOCCSKSARGEN at ₱152.63, and if you are in one of those the game still isn't matching a Manila number that doesn't exist. It's maximizing margin in your own market.

The Value Chain Gap You Can Exploit

Here's how the money flows from your farm to the final consumer:

NatFed puts the combined trader and biyahero margin at about ₱120/kg. A value chain analysis from Eastern Samar measured the biyahero's gross spread on native pigs at roughly ₱94/kg. Freight, shrink, permits, and handling come out of those figures, so it isn't all profit, but it is nowhere near the ₱10-₱20/kg the trade likes to claim. The distance between your ₱179 and a ₱327 kilo of kasim in a Manila wet market is the biggest number in this article. Every buyer you cut out puts more of it in your hands. (For reference, DA's MSRP since 5 December 2025 is ₱370 for liempo and ₱330 for kasim and pigue. The ₱380 liempo ceiling you may have read about is only proposed, not in force.)

Buyer Types: Who to Sell To (Ranked by Margin)

1. Lechon operators (₱10-₱30/kg over the local biyahero quote) The best buyers in Visayas. Cebu alone has hundreds of lechon operations. Rico's Lechon sells chopped lechon at ₱990/kg retail. They need consistent supply of the right sizes: 25-40 kg for lechon de leche, 70-90 kg for whole lechon. If you can deliver the right pig at the right time, they'll pay above standard farmgate and come back. The lechon de leche margin math is worth running before you commit a batch to it.

How to connect: visit lechon stalls in your municipal market. Ask who supplies them. Most lechon operators in Cebu, Iloilo, and Davao buy from 3-5 regular farmers. Getting on that list is worth more than any price table.

2. Small butchers and carinderia owners (₱10-₱20/kg over the biyahero quote, roughly ₱185-₱200/kg today) They buy 1-3 heads per week. Payment is usually same-day cash. The volume is small but the price is good and the relationship is reliable. Walk the wet markets in your area. Talk to the meat vendors. Most of them are looking for local supply because biyahero prices keep climbing.

3. Direct-to-consumer / fiesta sales (₱210-₱250/kg) During town fiestas, graduation, and holidays, families buy whole pigs directly from farmers. In Bohol, Leyte, and rural Cebu this is common. The price is negotiated per head, not per kilo, but usually works out to ₱210-₱250/kg liveweight, well above anything a trader will offer. The downside: irregular, seasonal, hard to plan around.

4. Biyaheros/viajeros (₱170-₱185/kg, below the national average) The default buyer. They come to your farm, weigh, pay, and haul. Convenient. But they know the price better than you do, and their entire business model is the gap between what they pay you and what they sell for. If you're selling to biyaheros, at minimum get quotes from 2-3 different ones. Never accept the first offer.

Seasonal Calendar for Visayas/Mindanao

For a Cebu farmer: buy weaners in July, sell in November-December. For Davao: consider the August Kadayawan timing for a premium window. For Iloilo: the Dinagyang (January) and Paraw Regatta (February) create local demand spikes.

Problem: "Ang biyahero naghatag lang og ₱175, pero ₱330 ang kasim sa merkado"

The most common complaint we hear, and this time the farmer is basically right. Freight, the 3-5% transport shrink, permits, and handling are real costs that come out of the trader's side. But NatFed's own figure for the combined trader and biyahero margin is about ₱120/kg. That is not a rounding error, and it is not the ₱10-₱20/kg the trade likes to quote. Trucking to Manila yourself doesn't fix it either, because you pay the freight without the trader's network.

Your better play is the buyer in your own province who pays over the biyahero quote: the lechon operator, the small butcher, the carinderia owner, the family buying whole for a fiesta. They exist. You just need to find them before your pigs are ready, not after.

How to Check Your Current Local Price

Any printed table goes stale fast. Farmgate dropped ₱42/kg between June 2025 and January 2026, so a number from two quarters ago is worth very little. Before you sell, check three things in this order:

1. Your local viajero or MAO. This is the real number. Call two or three traders who buy in your barangay and ask the going farmgate rate this week for your pig's weight class. Your Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) often tracks it too. Never accept the first quote as gospel.
2. PSA OpenSTAT. Go to openstat.psa.gov.ph, under Prices, then Farmgate Prices, for the official "hogs for slaughter" liveweight series. It is monthly, it breaks out by region, and it runs about two months behind. Pull your own region rather than a national headline.
3. DA price monitoring. The DA bulletins lean toward retail and wholesale, but they show whether the broad trend is up or down right now.

Use your region's PSA figure as the sanity check. If a viajero offers you ₱40/kg below the latest monthly PSA number for your region and nothing local explains it (no ASF movement ban, no glut), you are being lowballed. Get another quote.

Run Your Numbers

Prices change. Your costs are specific. Use these tools with your actual local data:

• Break-even Calculator: find your minimum selling price
• Profit Simulator: model different price scenarios
• Feed Calculator: estimate your biggest cost with precision

Related:

• Crossbreed Pig Price Philippines: prices by breed type and weight
• Pig Farming Breakeven Calculator: breakeven analysis with worked examples
• Cost to Raise a Pig: full cost breakdown per head

Sources: PSA OpenSTAT Farmgate Prices and PSA Livestock and Poultry Quarterly Bulletin (monthly farmgate: Jan 2026 ₱172.56, Feb ₱176.31, Mar ₱179.23, Q1 2026 avg ₱176.03; Q4 2025 ₱182.83; Q3 2025 ₱191.51; June 2025 peak ₱214.52; March 2026 regional: Cordillera ₱208.88, Eastern Visayas ₱206.70, Central Luzon ₱178.41, Negros ₱163.19, SOCCSKSARGEN ₱152.63; national herd 8.70M head at 31 Mar 2026 vs 12.70M pre-ASF peak); Context.ph, May 2025 (Q1 2025 record ₱212.58/kg, +16% YoY); SINAG (May 2026 industry average ₱180-₱190/kg; ₱180/kg cost of production) and eFeedLink (trade quotes ₱183-₱193/kg); NatFed (₱180/kg cost of production; ~₱120/kg trader and biyahero margin); BusinessWorld, Feb 2026 (landed import cost ~₱120/kg; tariff rates); BusinessWorld, Nov 2025 and DA, Nov 2025 (₱210/kg floor price, SINAG / NFHFI / PROPORK, never reached in any month or region); Manila Bulletin, Jan 2026 (record 1.64M MT 2025 meat imports; 851,760 MT pork); EO 116 (19 May 2026, MAV raised to 204,210 MT); BAI ASF Portal (zoning status; Visayas outbreaks from late June 2026); DA Bantay Presyo (NCR retail, 12 Jul 2026: liempo ₱379.43, kasim ₱327.55, pigue ₱325.29); Rico's Lechon Cebu pricelist (lechon retail pricing); Value Chain Analysis of Sinirangan Pig, Borongan City (trader spread). Prices verified 12 July 2026. Buyer-channel ranges are indicative trade figures, not PSA data.

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• How long until a pig is ready to sell: market weight and finishing timeline
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