Here is one fact about the hog industry that people outside of the hog industry are clueless about: the Department of Agriculture (DA) has zero support role, development-wise, in the industry. The hog raisers raise hogs by themselves, do farm biosecurity work by themselves, select and procure their own animal health technologies (from veterinary drugs to feed formulation), and build their hog raising-infrastructure according to the needs of their production sites (temperate Batangas may require physical structures that are a bit different from the needs of hot and dry Pampanga).
Even the permits and legal requirements to operate have nothing to do with the DA, contrary to the layman’s perception that the agency has been heavily involved in the hog industry. For example, these are what you need to operate a hog farm anywhere in the country:
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