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it hard to caught thieves. i let barangay tanod do there job

closed your farm gate and  visitors not allowed that's it. i have loading area for selling pigs

its true and this is what happening also here in the philippines for the past few year 

Philippines' National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) in central Mindanao disclosed that Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority approved a pork processor in the region to export meat parts to the city state.

 

Jose Ariel Billones, regional meat inspection director, said Singapore relayed clearance to the South Cotabato (GenSan City) based Matutum Meat Packing Corp. to start the shipment of fresh frozen cut pork meat products.

 

Billones clarified that there is no particular date yet as to when the actual export would start.

 

Albert Lim Jr., president of the National Federation of Hog Farmers, Inc., said Singapore has only approved one plant so far, but it marks a huge step for the Philippine pork industry.

 

On February 18, Billones announced that the Singaporean veterinary team did not give clearance to Matutum Meat following that its site inspection last January 28, due to concerns on antibiotic residues found on pork meat.

 

The issue has been addressed by tracing the origin of pigs through the assignment by Matutum Meat of codes to piggery owners, Billones said.

 

Matutum Meat, a sister company of Cebu-based Sunpride Foods, Inc. which produces Holiday corned beef and Sunpride canned goods, has invested around PHP200 million (US$4.9 million) for its state-of-the-art processing plant in Polomolok town.

 

Matutum Meat is one of two companies which the Department of Agriculture tapped to pioneer the country's foray in the foreign pork market. The other one is the Davao-based Nenita Quality Foods Corp.

 

Singaporean experts are reportedly set to visit the facility of Nenita's in June.

[China's pig disease problems caused by modified Blue Ear virus]

March 13, 2008

 

China's pig disease problems caused by modified Blue Ear virus

 
A modified strain of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRSV) could be one of the primary culprits of the severe mortality rate of pigs in China, which has gripped the country's pig industry since 2006.

 

According to a report by the Dutch Animal Health Service, both swine fever and circovirus played important roles along with PRRS or Blue-Ear disease in the outbreaks of animal diseases in China.

 

Pig diseases in the country have killed nearly 100 percent of young animals, driving pork prices to skyrocket.

 

Recent tests revealed that 25 to 50 percent of pigs that are 30, 65 and 105 days old respectively died from the virus.

 

Sows are also giving birth to dead piglets which are infected with the virus.

 

Tom Duinhof, swine specialist at the Dutch Health Service, said that the virus found in these animals varies from the strain in Europe and the US.

 

Duinhof explained that although it is unclear whether the change in PRRS virus is the reason for severe symptoms of the pigs, there is a possibility that the change in virus is recent and appeared in 2006.

 

He added that an RNA-virus changes quickly and which is difficult to counteract.

 

PRRS causes reproductive failure in breeding stock and respiratory tract illness in young pigs. Initially referred to as mystery swine disease and mystery reproductive syndrome, it was first reported in 1987 in North America and Central Europe.

March 11, 2008

 

China pork prices drop in latest week, yet to remain high for some time

 

China's pork prices fell 0.75 percent in the week ending March 7, at RMB14.65 (US$2.05) per 500 grammes, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Monday.

 

Pork prices were 1.6 percent lower than on February 3, when they were at RMB14.80 (US$2.08) per 500 grammes.

 

However, pork prices are expected to remain strong generally due to high demand and the decline of hog population in the country, a senior government official said.

 

Wang Zhicai, director general of the Department of Livestock Husbandry, said rising production and labor costs as well as increasing demand will keep prices high, although the hog population has recovered since blue ear disease affected the industry last year.

 

Chinese assistant commerce minister, Huang Hai, said over the weekend that it would take longer than the government had previously forecast for China's hog population to return to a level high enough to satisfy market demand.

 

Last year's surge in pork prices was a key driver of inflation in China.

Fat of the Land: Beijing has tapped the country's official 'pork reserve'
By Melinda Liu and Sam Seibert | NEWSWEEK
Feb 11, 2008 Issue




A new breed of criminal has emerged in China: "pigjackers." Soaring pork prices in the People's Republic have sent thieves roaring off with truckloads of hogs—and sometimes with smaller hauls, as was the case with the gang that was busted last year in Shenzhen trying to make off with 275 pounds of pork on a motorbike. A local newspaper valued the meat at upwards of $420, or roughly three times what a stolen motorbike might fetch in the city. Police easily caught the getaway bike; it couldn't handle all that weight.

The porcine crime wave is no joke to China's leaders. They see it as a sign of a much larger problem: even more than they worry about a repetition of Tiananmen Square, they dread the kind of mass unrest that could erupt out of a spike in pork prices. A full 65 percent of the country's total protein consumption is pork. The threat of a spontaneous uprising has been made worse by a freak blizzard that paralyzed central China last week—the region's worst in 50 years—stranding mobs of migrant workers on their way home for the Lunar New Year and disrupting shipments of the pig meat that is essential to holiday feasts. Food prices in general, and pork in particular, have been skyrocketing for months. Economic boom times are boosting demand even as the supply has plunged because of shrinking farmlands, rising grain prices and a "blue ear disease" epidemic that forced pig raisers to cull many thousands of hogs.

In an effort to head off serious trouble, Beijing has tapped the country's official "pork reserve." That's no joke, either; it's the actual term for the special stash of meat the Chinese government keeps frozen in case of a sudden crunch—not unlike America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But snowbound shipments of pork probably won't reach many Chinese families' tables in time for the holiday. And the country's underlying agricultural shortages will only get worse. The prospect is something for the whole world to worry about. Experts predict that China, long a major exporter of corn products, will soon become a net importer—possibly this year. When that happens, global grain prices could jump like this year's oil market.


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[HOG PRICE for this week of Mar 10 to Mar 16 2008]

HOG PRICE for this week of Mar 10 to Mar 16 2008

Bulacan - 101 to 110, Oversize - 104  Culd Sow  -85, Tarlac - 110 , Rizal - 102 to 104 , culd sow - 80,

Laguna - 105 oversive -103  ,Cavite - 105 to 106   culd sow - 83 , Batangas -  105 to 106 , Quezon - 100,

Pangasinan- 100 to 105  culd sow - 85 ,Pampanga - 104 to 108  Culd sow - 85 ,

Nueva Ecija - 102 to 105 Culd Sow 75  ,Or  Mindoro - 95 , La Union - 95 to 100

Naga - 92 to 96  culd sow - 75 ,Ilocos - 105 to 110



Cebu- 89 to 96   Culd sow - 70 , Bacolod- 81 to 85, Leyte - 88 , Ilo

ilo - 85 , Dumagete - 80  ,Dipolog - 82  Culd sow - 65  ,Aklan - 830  Culd

sow - 60 , Ozamis- 80 



Cagayan de oro - 84  , Davao - 82 to 88 ,Davao Del Sur - 80 , Gensan - 88

to 95  Culd sow - 70 ,  Zamboanga - 82,  Zamboanga Sibugay - 77,

Pagadian - 81 , Surigao - 81 ,  Koronadal City - 88 to 90

As of March/08/08 per kilo
                                  Retail #2,wet markets,meat stall etc.
                                  Prevailing            Low            High
pork ham/kasim  lean      160.00                150.00        170.00
pork liempo/pork belly     170.00                160.00        180.00


                                  Supermarket/grocercies as of March,05/08
                                   Low                   High
pork ham/kasim  lean       170.00               195.00
pork liempo/pork belly      178.00               230.00

source of these 230pesos  pricing?

By Amy R. Remo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:45:00 02/29/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- The public may expect a tight supply of pork this year, as some 20 percent of backyard raisers have gone out of business, but the hog raisers’ group says they will meet market demand.

“The industry is hard pressed ... supply is tight, but we can assure the public that there is definitely no pork shortage,” said Albert R.T. Lim Jr., president of National Federation of Hog Farmers Inc.

Hog farmers, especially backyard raisers, have been reeling from the high costs of feeds and from animal diseases.

About 70 percent of the country’s hog farmers are backyard raisers.

“Prices of feed ingredients such as corn and soy have increased by as much as 50 percent since 2000, while prices of pork have increased by only 20 percent,” Lim noted.

As of last month, prices of feed ingredients had risen: soybean to a 37-year high of P24 a kilogram, corn to P12.00-P13.50, feed wheat to P17.40, and coconut oil to P52.

Lim said production costs rose to as much as P100 a kilogram and retail and wet market prices hovered between P140 and P160 a kilogram.

He also noted the occurrence of animal diseases such as porcine epidemic diarrhea and porcine reproduction and respiratory syndrome.

However, Lim said the swine industry remained optimistic of sustaining growth. “We expect hog production to normalize by the middle of the year,” he said.

Last year hog production grew 2.7 percent to 1.89 million metric tons.

Meanwhile, Bureau of Animal Industry Director Davinio Catbagan assured the public that the bureau would ensure that prices of pork would not go beyond P180 a kilogram.

“We see prices stabilizing as soon as pork supply normalizes, which [Lim] said would be by the middle of the year,” Catbagan said. Edited by INQUIRER.net