OPV monitoring of pork prices

Where to buy cheap lechonon,

Hog, meat this fiesta season?

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, May 26, (PIA) – May is ending but fiestas are far from ending.

While people still scour animal auction and meat markets for that best buy of pigs for slaughter, whole roast and meat, the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian, under Dr. Stella Marie Lapiz is coming out with an easy to check live hog and pork price bulletin.

Easy, like as of May 19, the most affordable live hog for roasting can be found in Clarin, where the price rates at P240 per kilo of live weight, and the most expensive lechonon would be P300 per kilo and is the price in Baclayon, Panglao, Bien Unido, Talibon and Carmen.

For live hogs weighing relatively over 60 kilos and are ideal for slaughter, the best place with the best price offer in Bohol is in Catigbian, Balilihan, Clarin, Danao and Loay where it is priced at P160 per kilo.

For meat already displayed in public markets, the average price of the most affordable can be found in the wet markets of Balilihan and Catigbian, where you could save a fen for their P290 a kilo, as against P360 in Mabini.

And if you’re looking for a place nearby where affordable live hog can be had, for the first District, the cheapest price for live hog for slaughter is in Balilihan and Catigbian at P160 per kilo of live weight. The most expensive in the district can be found in Baclayon, Panglao and Tubigon where a kilo of live weight of hog for slaughter costs P190.

For a live hog for roasting, if you are from the first District, the best deal you can have would be in Catigbian where the live weight for a roasted pig sized hog can be had at P240. If you buy it in Panglao or Baclayon, it would be P60 more per kilo or a live weight is sold at P300 per kilo.

If it is meat you intend to buy and you are from the first district, your best options are still getting it from Balilihan and Catigbian markets where it is priced at P290 a kilo.

Getting it from a nearby mall in the city might not be a good idea. There, lean meat can be bought from P300 a kilo to P330 a kilo.

For hams, in the city malls and public markets, prices range from P293 to P330 a kilo while pork belly prices per kilo range from P300 to P365.

If you happen to be from the second district, your best option for sized live hog for slaughter would be bought from Danao, Clarin or San Isidro where these are priced at P160 a kilo of live weight.

You’d most likely get it much more of you would get it from Talibon, where it is priced at P230 per kilo of live weight.

For lechonon in the district, the best buys could be from Clarin, where a P240 a kilo li live weight is the best deal as against Bien Unido and Talibon where these are priced at P300/kilo.

For meat, wet markets in Buenavista and San Isidro are your best bets, at P300 per kilo while Dagohoy has the least of a deal with P350 a kilo.

In the third district, live hog for slaughter is cheapest when bought in Loay where you can get it at P160 a kilo rather than the P200 per kilo when bought in Valencia.

For live hog for roasting, the best prices would be from Loay, Candijay, Dimiao, Loboc, Mabini and Sevilla where a P250 a kilo of live weight was monitored last week.

And you are most likely to pay some P50 more if you buy it from Carmen, which had it priced P300 a kilo last time.

For meat on a per kilo basis from the wet markets, the best place to buy in the district is Anda, where it is at P300 a kilo and the most expensive is when you buy from Mabini where it is at P360.

And when you’re buying the bigger hogs, the 91-100 kilos can be had from commercial farms at P190 a kilo, while your 61-70 kilos would be at P243 a kilo.

And with the threat of African Swine Fever stalking Bohol, despite a noted increase in production price owing to the pinch in raw materials for feed processing, farmer growers still continue to get decent profit margins, OPV noted. (PIA-7/Bohol)