Tabuk City, Kalinga - The hog supply shortage brought about by the recent hog epidemic which originated from Bulacan and spread to other parts of Luzon including the Cagayan Valley and Kalinga has jacked up live and dressed weight prices here.
City Veterinarian Fermin Quinto said that around 20 percent of the hog population in the city was lost due to the infection of hog cholera, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and the circo virus disease.
But according to Quinto, despite the crisis, local hog raisers as usual are not getting the most from their production because local meat vendors are reluctant to let them.
Quinto told the media that while meat vendors from Cagayan and Isabela now going around the city looking for hogs are buying at P90.00 to P95.00 per kilo, local meat vendors are buying hogs at P85.00 to P90.00 and that's even after they have raised the price of lean pork meat to P140.00 from the P130.00 set by City Ordinance No. 04, series of 2004.
Quinto also said it is doubtful if during the present crisis the local meat vendors will stop their notorious practices of not paying hog raisers right away and returning the parts of the hog which are hard to sell such as the head, feet and belly to the hog raiser at the dressed weight price.
Quinto said that hog raisers are partly to blame for the shabby treatment they are receiving from the meat vendors because they could not put up a united stand relative to the local meat vendors.
"For many years now, we have been telling them to organize so they could have a strong bargaining position with the vendors but none of the several organizations they have set up without assistance ever became operational," Quinto said.
Quinto added that they have stressed to the hog raisers that the best thing they could do is not to remain mere producers but also to slaughter and process their hogs so they could dictate the price but the hog raisers are not heeding the advice.
Asked for their side, Tabuk Market Meat Vendors Association (TMMVA) Vice President Elizabeth Castillo denied that they have raised pork prices claiming that P140.00 per kilo is the legal price.
She explained that prior to the current hog supply shortage when there was an over-supply of hogs they have been selling meat at as low as P120.00 per kilo.
Castillo rued that when it's the live weight price of hogs which are hiked, it goes unnoticed but when it's the prices of pork which are raised, the public and hog raisers raise a howl.
She said that the TMMVA are planning to raise the prices of pork to PI 50.00 per kilo so that they could compete with the outside meat vendors who are buying at as high as P100.00 per live weight kilo.
Regarding the issue of parts .of hogs being returned by buying meat vendors to hog raisers, Castillo said that no member in the TMMVA is involved except in the case of sows but then again, it is only when the hog raiser consents.
Anticipating that the hog raisers will not respond to fresh calls for them to sit down to plan and formulate strategies to successfully deal with the meat vendors, Quinto only gave them the practical advice not to sell the hogs they are fattening which are not yet of market weight of 90 to 120 kilos so they could maximize their investment.
Regarding the hog epidemic, Quinto said that his office has not received any report of an incident since mid-March in the wake of the information campaign, distribution of disinfectants which were provided by the Department of Agriculture and massive vaccination undertaken by his office. **By Estanislao Albano, Jr.
City Veterinarian Fermin Quinto said that around 20 percent of the hog population in the city was lost due to the infection of hog cholera, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and the circo virus disease.
But according to Quinto, despite the crisis, local hog raisers as usual are not getting the most from their production because local meat vendors are reluctant to let them.
Quinto told the media that while meat vendors from Cagayan and Isabela now going around the city looking for hogs are buying at P90.00 to P95.00 per kilo, local meat vendors are buying hogs at P85.00 to P90.00 and that's even after they have raised the price of lean pork meat to P140.00 from the P130.00 set by City Ordinance No. 04, series of 2004.
Quinto also said it is doubtful if during the present crisis the local meat vendors will stop their notorious practices of not paying hog raisers right away and returning the parts of the hog which are hard to sell such as the head, feet and belly to the hog raiser at the dressed weight price.
Quinto said that hog raisers are partly to blame for the shabby treatment they are receiving from the meat vendors because they could not put up a united stand relative to the local meat vendors.
"For many years now, we have been telling them to organize so they could have a strong bargaining position with the vendors but none of the several organizations they have set up without assistance ever became operational," Quinto said.
Quinto added that they have stressed to the hog raisers that the best thing they could do is not to remain mere producers but also to slaughter and process their hogs so they could dictate the price but the hog raisers are not heeding the advice.
Asked for their side, Tabuk Market Meat Vendors Association (TMMVA) Vice President Elizabeth Castillo denied that they have raised pork prices claiming that P140.00 per kilo is the legal price.
She explained that prior to the current hog supply shortage when there was an over-supply of hogs they have been selling meat at as low as P120.00 per kilo.
Castillo rued that when it's the live weight price of hogs which are hiked, it goes unnoticed but when it's the prices of pork which are raised, the public and hog raisers raise a howl.
She said that the TMMVA are planning to raise the prices of pork to PI 50.00 per kilo so that they could compete with the outside meat vendors who are buying at as high as P100.00 per live weight kilo.
Regarding the issue of parts .of hogs being returned by buying meat vendors to hog raisers, Castillo said that no member in the TMMVA is involved except in the case of sows but then again, it is only when the hog raiser consents.
Anticipating that the hog raisers will not respond to fresh calls for them to sit down to plan and formulate strategies to successfully deal with the meat vendors, Quinto only gave them the practical advice not to sell the hogs they are fattening which are not yet of market weight of 90 to 120 kilos so they could maximize their investment.
Regarding the hog epidemic, Quinto said that his office has not received any report of an incident since mid-March in the wake of the information campaign, distribution of disinfectants which were provided by the Department of Agriculture and massive vaccination undertaken by his office. **By Estanislao Albano, Jr.
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