7 guides on financing for Philippine pig farmers.
"Is a piggery a good investment" gets a yes from everyone selling you one. Here is the honest answer with 2026 numbers, compared head-to-head against the four things OFW money usually goes into instead.
May 20, 2026
Backyard 10-pig operators look at semi-commercial 80-pig farms and think scale equals more money. The math is harder than that. At some scales, adding pigs makes your per-pig margin worse, not better.
May 13, 2026
SAAD gives free pigs, but only to organized farmer associations in covered municipalities. Most groups stall in the first cycle because nobody budgets the follow-on feed bill and the pen sits on bare dirt.
May 13, 2026
The DSWD SLP Seed Capital Fund grants up to ₱15,000 per participant for a piggery, usually pooled into a 5-15 member group project. Here is what the grant actually buys, who qualifies, and which project structures fail before the first cycle ends.
May 13, 2026
Five real capital tiers from ₱20K to ₱500K, with what each one buys, how many pigs you can run, and where each tier stops working. Built on verified PSA and DA prices, not the numbers YouTube videos skip.
May 13, 2026
OFWs and OFW families can borrow ₱100,000 to ₱2 million for a piggery at 7.5% per annum through OWWA OFW-EDLP. This is what the program actually requires in 2026, the realistic timeline, and how to size the loan to a pig farm that can service the debt.
May 13, 2026
Most pasalo piggeries are sold at a discount for a reason. Here is the 12-point inspection checklist, the math for comparing pasalo price vs greenfield cost, and the red flags that say walk away even when the price looks tempting.
May 13, 2026
