The government will boost starting this week the volume of shipments of live pigs and frozen meat coming from the Visayas and Mindanao to increase the low pork supply in some Luzon areas, particularly in Metro Manila.
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the total swine inventory in the country was 12.73 million heads as of April 1, 2019, 0.2 percent lower compared with the previous year’s 12.75 million heads. Swine in backyard farms reached 8.06 million heads, down 1 percent from the previous year’s headcount of 8.14 million heads.
