Philippine Pig Farming · Annual Snapshot 2026
The numbers that decide whether
your farm makes money this year.
Prices, ASF status, the national herd, feed cost, profitability by scale, government programs. Every figure on this page carries the source that published it and the date we read it. Where no source exists, we say so on the page instead of filling the gap.
Four numbers. Two of them are bad news.
PSA's last official farmgate is ₱176.03/kg for Q1 2026, and SINAG puts the trade at ₱180–190 since. It costs about ₱180 to produce that kilo. The herd is at 8.70M heads, the lowest first quarter since 1994, and ASF is back in the Visayas.
The ₱210 floor has never been reached.
The DA set a ₱210/kg minimum farmgate price on 4 Nov 2025. PSA has published five months since: ₱177.78, ₱187.06, ₱172.56, ₱176.31, ₱179.23. Not one of them touched it. Not one region did either. At roughly ₱180/kg to produce, the average farm is selling its pigs at cost.
Liveweight farmgate · 2024 → 2026
PSA quarterly averages, plus the two trade reads that cover the months PSA has not published yet. The DA floor of ₱210/kg has not been touched in a single month since it was set.
Source: PSA OpenSTAT farmgate prices — the quarterly points are means of the official monthly series. The last two points are trade reads, not PSA: eFeedLink's quote for the week ending 1 May 2026, then SINAG via BusinessWorld, 21 May 2026. Cost of production ₱180/kg is SINAG and NatFed, who reach it separately.
Regional farmgate · March 2026
Luzon is not the anchor. The two dearest markets in the country are the Cordillera and Eastern Visayas; Central Luzon sits mid-pack. Where ASF is active, price collapses. Negros prints ₱163 and SOCCSKSARGEN ₱153.
Highest in the country
Second highest
Mid-pack, not the anchor
ASF resurgence zone
Lowest in the country
Source: PSA OpenSTAT, regional monthly farmgate, March 2026. Not one region reached the floor that month. Prices move week to week with hauling cost and ASF zoning, so check with your own buyer or the LGU veterinary office before you sell.
Four decisions in Manila that set your 2026 price.
A quadrupled import quota, a floor price nobody enforces, a retail ceiling still only proposed, and a corn tariff that did not budge. Three of the four cut against the farmgate.
EO 116 — pork import quota quadrupled
Works against youRaised the pork Minimum Access Volume from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT. MAV is a tariff quota, not an import cap: actual 2025 imports were 851,760 MT, four times the new MAV. The real effect is a 10-point duty saving (25% → 15%) on a much larger tranche.
As of 19 May 2026
₱380/kg liempo retail ceiling
WatchDA has signalled intent to cap liempo at ₱380/kg. Still PROPOSED — not issued as of 21 May 2026. The existing MSRP (5 Dec 2025) is ₱370 liempo, ₱330 kasim and pigue.
As of 21 May 2026
DA minimum farmgate price — not achieved
Works against youThe ₱210/kg floor agreed with SINAG, NatFed and PROPORK has not been reached in any month of PSA data since it was set (Nov ₱177.78 · Dec ₱187.06 · Jan ₱172.56 · Feb ₱176.31 · Mar ₱179.23). No source shows it enforced, amended or repealed.
As of 4 Nov 2025
Corn tariff unchanged
WatchIn-quota 5%, out-quota 15% under EO 62, in force to 2028. FEF petitioned on 22 April 2026 to cut the out-quota rate to 5%; not granted. Corn is 50–65% of feed formulation, so this is the lever that would move feed cost.
As of 22 Apr 2026
8 barangays. The count is two months old.
BAI's last national count was 8 May 2026: 8 active barangays across 7 provinces, down 88% year on year from 98. Every case since then landed after it. Negros Occidental on 23 June, Iloilo on 29 June, Bacolod and Capiz in July. The decline was real, and it happened in the six Luzon provinces that got the vaccine.
Active ASF barangays · the three counts BAI published
Three national counts, not a continuous series. It fell from 98 barangays on 31 Dec 2025 to 8 on 8 May 2026, a drop BAI put at 88% year on year. That last count is where the official record stops. Everything in the Visayas since June happened after it.
Source: BAI counts as relayed by pig333 and PNA — 31 Dec 2025, 6 Feb 2026, 8 May 2026. Active means barangays with confirmed cases inside the 1 km cull radius. BAI has published no national count for June or July 2026, so the line between the dots is shape, not data, and nobody should read the last dot as today's number.
The Visayas resurgence · since 23 June 2026
The decline in the national count happened in the six Luzon provinces that got the vaccine. ASF is now moving through the Visayas, which did not. This is the part the headline number cannot show you.
Source: The Manila Times, SunStar, DigiCast Negros, GMA News, June–July 2026 reporting.
DA zoning · 1-7-10 km protocol
The Nov 2025 rules brought in WOAH-aligned regionalization. Each zone carries different movement rules, and the zone you are in decides whether you can sell at all.
Tip: Check your province's current zone with the LGU veterinary office. Zones shift week to week, and a provincial ban can land overnight — Cebu closed to both Negros provinces on 7 July with 45 days' notice to nobody.
AVAC vaccine rollout
The first commercially tested ASF vaccine is in a government-controlled rollout, in six Luzon provinces. You cannot buy it.
Vaccinated: Batangas, Rizal, Laguna, Bulacan, Tarlac, Pampanga. Commercial sale is targeted for Q3 2026 (DA/BAI target; six producers have applied). If you farm outside those six provinces, the vaccine is not part of your 2026 plan — biosecurity is.
Source: BAI and DA bulletins, 8 May 2026.
The herd stopped falling. It never rebuilt.
ASF took national stock from 12.7M heads in 2019 to 8.70M in March 2026, the lowest first quarter since 1994. Output still rose 6.4% that quarter, which means pigs are leaving farms faster than they are being replaced.
National herd · 2018 → 2026
ASF took the herd from 12.7M heads in 2019 to 8.70M as of Mar 2026. Seven years on it has stopped falling hard, but it has not rebuilt: lowest first-quarter level since 1994.
Source: PSA swine inventory, year-end for every bar except the last. The 2026 bar is the 31 March reading — a partial year, and the lowest first quarter since 1994. Q1 output still rose 6.4% year on year on that smaller herd, which is faster offtake, not a rebuild. The segment shrinking is the commercial one, down 24.5%; smallholders now hold 78.5% of the national herd.
Feed is 57% of your cost, and it rose again.
Premium grower and finisher run ₱34.90–38.20/kg, about ₱1,830 a bag. Millers added ₱ 1–2/kg through 2026 and none has announced a rollback. Corn is half the formulation, and the tariff cut that would have moved it was not granted.
Premium grower / finisher · ₱36.69/kg
Feed runs about 57% of what it costs you to raise a pig, which is why a peso on the bag matters more than a peso on the farmgate. Millers added ₱1–2/kg through 2026. None of them has announced a rollback.
Source: Agrilife PH dated listings for Suregrow and VIEPro grower and finisher, read 12 Jul 2026. That is one retailer's premium tier, not a national average — your co-op or dealer will differ, and B-MEG or Thunderbird at your local agrivet is the number that actually governs your batch. We publish no budget-tier or self-mix figure because no dated source for one could be found. Weigh your own bags.
What a pig eats, end to end
Weaner to a 90–100 kg finish, at the bag prices above. This is our own calculator's output, not somebody else's survey.
Standard for backyard and most semi-commercial farms
Note: the per-pig range is Baboy PH's own calculator output, not an external figure. Search for it and you will find our own pages quoting it back at you, which proves nothing. Run it against your own FCR before you trust it.
At the market average, there is no profit.
SINAG and NatFed both put cost of production at ₱180/kg. The market is paying about ₱185. The tiers below are Baboy PH's own model, not a survey of what farms earned: they show what each scale can reach when feed cost and mortality are held down. Everything in them depends on beating that ₱180.
Backyard
5–10 pigs · family labor
- Capital
- ₱25k–₱65k
- FCR
- 3.0–3.5
- Mortality
- 5–8%
- Margin
- 8–15%
- Payback
- 6–9 months
Best for: First-time raisers, OFW side income, rural households
Semi-commercial
50–200 pigs · hired labor
- Capital
- ₱350k–₱1.5M
- FCR
- 2.7–3.0
- Mortality
- 4–6%
- Margin
- 12–20%
- Payback
- 12–24 months
Best for: Returning OFWs, established farmers, family corporations
Commercial
500+ pigs · pro management
- Capital
- ₱4.0M–₱20.0M
- FCR
- 2.4–2.7
- Mortality
- 3–4%
- Margin
- 15–25%
- Payback
- 24–48 months
Best for: Established operators, integrators, breeder-finishers
December is the peak. May is the second wave.
Christmas anchors the year — December liveweight runs ~10% above baseline. Holy Week + summer fiesta is the second uplift. February is the trough.
Best month to sell · seasonal price uplift
Months sized by their typical premium over the baseline. December anchors the year for backyard farmers. May fiesta wave is the second peak.
Source: Multi-year farmgate data, fiesta calendar, NEDA pork demand index. Christmas (Dec) premium is the most consistent; April–May tracks summer fiesta season; February is the demand trough.
₱25k or ₱2M — both work, on different timelines.
The Philippine pig business scales smoothly. Each capital tier produces real returns — what changes is how long until first cash and how much skill you need to deploy.
Capital ladder · what each tier buys you
Realistic capital ranges from try-and-learn backyard to full commercial. Every tier is profitable — the difference is timeline and skill required.
Source: Synthesis of 20+ Baboy PH cost articles, DA-SAAD program docs, OFW investor case studies. Bars use log-scale (each tier is ~4× the previous).
Nine programs you probably qualify for. Most farmers never enrol.
Free insurance, free piglets, seed capital, zero-interest loans for swine raisers and for farmers under 30, OFW loans, vaccination access. RSBSA registration at your LGU agriculture office is the gate to all of it, and it costs nothing.
The six pathogens that decide your year.
ASF is the headline, but hog cholera, PRRS, parasites and mycotoxin all quietly eat margin. The standard backyard vaccination schedule covers most of them, and it is cheap next to a wipe-out.
Disease watch · 2026
The six pathogens that decide whether your farm makes money. ASF stays at the top even with active cases down — one outbreak wipes out a whole batch.
Vaccination + dewormer calendar
Standard backyard schedule, weaner-to-market. Set reminders on day-1, day-30, day-60, day-90.
- 1 dayIron injectionPrevent anaemia in piglets
- 7 daysCastration (males)If raising for market
- 21–28 daysWeaning + first dewormerTransition feed
- 30 daysHog cholera + PasteurellosisCore vaccines
- 60 daysHog cholera boosterCement immunity
- 90 daysSecond dewormerMid-grow
- Pre-farrowing (sow)Iron + dewormer 2 wks beforeSow + piglet health
Note: For sow herds add PRRS + parvovirus vaccines. Always cross-check with your provincial veterinary office — schedule varies by ASF zone.
Sources & methodology
Every figure here traces to a dated, fetchable source, and the raw observations behind the charts live in a public append-only archive in our repo.
Correction, 12 July 2026. An audit of this page found that several of its headline numbers were not just stale, they were never sourced: a ₱218/kg farmgate no agency ever published, an ASF barangay curve drawn between two real endpoints, and a ₱39/kg "blended" feed price higher than the feed it claimed to average. Those rows have been retracted and rebuilt from PSA, DA, BAI and trade reporting. The retractions are kept in the archive rather than deleted, with the reason attached to each one. Where a figure has no source, this page now says so instead of carrying a number.
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