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

As of May 2026, a live pig sells for roughly ₱200-₱230/kg liveweight at farmgate in most of the country, with Luzon at the top of that range and Mindanao at the bottom. A finished 95 kg pig is worth around ₱19,000-₱21,000 before the biyahero's cut. Prices have climbed back above the ₱210/kg DA floor after the late-2025 crash, but the spread by region is wide and moves fast.

Last verified 19 May 2026 against PSA and DA bulletins. Next review: August 2026 (Q2 PSA release). 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 swung ₱60/kg in a single year that is how farmers lose whole batches of profit.

Current Farmgate Prices by Region

One thing first, so nobody gets misled. PSA publishes one national average farmgate price for pigs for slaughter each quarter, not a clean weekly per-region series. The latest official figure is ₱191.51/kg liveweight for Q3 2025 (PSA, up from ₱175.82/kg in Q3 2024), and ₱182.83/kg for Q4 2025 per the Livestock and Poultry Quarterly Bulletin. Q4 2025 PSA regional breakdowns were not yet released as of May 2026.

So treat the table below as indicative ranges anchored to that verified national average plus DA price-monitoring bulletins and trader reports, not as a fresh proprietary survey. The shape of the spread (Luzon highest, Mindanao lowest) is consistent year after year. The exact peso figure in your barangay this week is something only your local viajero or MAO can confirm. Skip to "how to check your current local price" if that is all you need.

Regional figures are indicative May 2026 ranges built from DA price-monitoring bulletins and trader reports; the bolded row is the last verified PSA quarterly average (Q3 2025, ₱191.51/kg), which predates the early-2026 recovery. The production-share percentages are approximate, derived from PSA regional inventory data, not exact survey weights. The pattern holds every year: Luzon gets roughly ₱15-25/kg more than Visayas, Visayas roughly ₱5-10/kg more than Mindanao. Metro Manila pulls in pigs from across the country, so proximity to that demand is what gets paid for.

For Visayas and Mindanao farmers, this means your breakeven needs to be lower than a Luzon farmer's. If your breakeven is ₱150/kg and farmgate in your area is ₱195/kg, you have a real cushion. But if your breakeven is ₱185/kg, one import shock wipes you out, the same way the late-2025 crash to ₱150-₱180 did. Hibal-i ang imong breakeven antes mobaligya.

Why Prices Differ by Region

It's not just distance from Manila. Five factors drive the regional 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.

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. Biyaheros (traveling traders) pay ₱185-210/kg. Lechon operators pay ₱200-235/kg for specific sizes (25-40 kg for lechon de leche, 70-90 kg for full lechon). Institutional buyers and direct-to-restaurant sales pay ₱205-230/kg but require 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, sometimes ₱20-₱40/kg below a clean neighboring province. The flip side: a confirmed ASF-free province with tight supply can run a premium. Zones change as outbreaks flare or clear (Palawan, for one, was re-declared ASF-free), so 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 quarterly bulletins and trade press, not a single proprietary series. The ₱191.51 (Q3 2025) and ₱212.58 (Q1 2025) figures are the hard PSA anchors; everything from Q4 2025 forward is estimated because PSA had not released those bulletins as of May 2026.

From 2023 to early 2025, the trend was strong recovery. Farmgate climbed from the ₱160s to a record ₱212.58/kg in Q1 2025, up 16% year-on-year and the highest since 2010, with March 2025 peaking at ₱215.93/kg. A resurgent African Swine Fever wave plus La Niña had cut Q1 pig output 3.7%. Then it reversed hard, bottoming at ₱150-₱180/kg in late 2025 before the floor price and tighter supply pulled it back up through early 2026.

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 imports alone exceeded 850 million kilograms. 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 (May 2026)

Prices have recovered hard. After bottoming at ₱150-₱180/kg in the late-2025 crash, farmgate climbed back above the ₱210 floor, and by April 2026 a price surge was being reported as fuel and feed costs pushed up the whole chain (BusinessMirror, April 2026). Production cost is running around ₱180/kg, so at ₱200-₱230/kg an efficient farm is finally making real money again. But it stays unstable:

• The DA's ₱210/kg liveweight floor (4 November 2025, with SINAG, NFHFI, and PROPORK) still has no effectivity date and is unevenly enforced
• Industry groups are lobbying to restore the pork tariff to 40% and cut import volumes
• Commercial feed went up ₱1-₱2/kg in early 2026 on fuel, so part of the price recovery is eaten by higher costs
• The ASF vaccine rollout is expanding, which should help rebuild supply over time
• No final government decision on restoring tariffs as of May 2026

Margins are real right now but fragile. Another import surge, a tariff decision against producers, or an oil shock feeding into freight could flip it. Know your breakeven and have a plan.

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 ₱270/kg × 0.74 = ₱200/kg liveweight equivalent
• Liveweight offer ₱210/kg ÷ 0.74 = ₱284/kg dressed equivalent

So a biyahero offering ₱270/kg "dressed" is paying you less than a neighbor offering ₱210/kg liveweight. 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 ₱210/kg means nothing if you don't know whether that's profit or loss for your operation.

2. Time your sales. The Christmas peak (November-December) adds ₱15-25/kg over lean months (January-February). A 95 kg pig sold at ₱225/kg in December vs ₱205/kg in January is a ₱1,900 difference. That's free money for timing. Plan your batch cycle to finish in November.

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. Build those relationships before your pigs are ready.

4. Watch import policy. Tariff decisions in 2026 will determine the floor under domestic prices. If the government restores 35-40% tariffs, farmgate should stabilize above ₱200/kg. If EO 62 rates continue, expect continued pressure. Follow the DA announcements.

5. Don't chase Manila prices from Mindanao. Shipping to Luzon eats ₱15-25/kg. You're better off finding premium local buyers (lechon, institutional) than paying freight. The exception is if you have 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, the Luzon prices in the table above can feel discouraging. You're getting ₱15-25/kg less. But the game isn't about matching Manila prices. It's about 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:

A value chain analysis from Eastern Samar measured the biyahero's gross spread on native pigs at about ₱94/kg, which is the trader's revenue before freight, shrink, and handling, not pure profit. Net margin after those costs is closer to ₱10-₱20/kg. Either way, every buyer you cut between your farm and the consumer puts more of that spread in your hands.

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

1. Lechon operators (₱200-₱235/kg farmgate, sometimes higher) 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 (₱200-₱225/kg) 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 (₱215-₱260/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 ₱215-₱260/kg liveweight. The downside: irregular, seasonal, hard to plan around.

4. Biyaheros/viajeros (₱185-₱210/kg) 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 ₱195, pero sa Manila ₱225"

The most common complaint we hear. As the regional table explains, that ₱30/kg gap is the freight, the 3-5% transport shrink, handling, and the biyahero's ₱10-₱20/kg net margin, not money the trader is simply pocketing. Trying to ship to Manila yourself eats the same costs, minus the trader's logistics network.

Your better play isn't chasing the Manila number. It's finding the ₱210-₱235/kg buyer in your own province: the lechon operator, the small butcher, the carinderia owner. 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. Pig prices can move ₱30-50/kg in a quarter, as the 2025 crash showed. 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 the national anchor, updated quarterly, a quarter or two behind.
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 the national PSA figure as your sanity check. If a viajero offers you ₱40/kg below the latest PSA quarterly average and nothing in your region explains it (no ASF zone lockdown, 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 (Q3 2025 farmgate ₱191.51/kg; Q4 2024 ₱175.82/kg); Context.ph, May 2025 (Q1 2025 record ₱212.58/kg, +16% YoY, highest since 2010); BusinessWorld, Feb 2026 (Q4 2025 ₱182.83/kg, down 14%; landed import cost ~₱120/kg; tariff rates); BusinessWorld, Nov 2025 and DA, Nov 2025 (₱210/kg floor price, SINAG / NFHFI / PROPORK); Manila Bulletin, Jan 2026 (record 1.64M MT 2025 meat imports); BusinessMirror, April 2026 (early-2026 price surge, ~₱180/kg production cost); BAI ASF Portal (current zoning status); DA price monitoring bulletins; Rico's Lechon Cebu pricelist (lechon retail pricing); Value Chain Analysis of Sinirangan Pig, Borongan City (trader margin data). Prices verified 19 May 2026; figures from Q4 2025 forward are estimates pending PSA bulletin release.

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