Quote:
Originally Posted by ratinacage
I did have a pig farm in some province between Iloilo and estancia many years back. Not a good choice.
It was easy cos it was from away from the city, no one minds the dirt and smell. But as it was away from the city, selling the pigs was a big problem, transporting the fully grown 150kg pigs were a BIG headache. Multiple that by the amount of pigs u have.
The feed was expensive, the vaccines were expensive. And you have to have someone who cared enough to wash them down twice a day, more in hot summer days.
The local pork sellers were only able to take 2-3KG of pork a day from u. So you needed to find someone to kill and guy the pigs if u r selling locally.
The big chains can take all 10 pigs at a time, but at a very low price.
They will send a truck to come collect all 10 pigs, bring to the slaughter house, kill and gut the pigs, remove all innards. THEN WEIGH the pigs. YOU ARE ONLY PAID for whatever the meat weighs.so 150kg of pig may only give u 110kg or less. It was a complete rip off, but the easiest way.
So in the end, every harvest u make either very little profit, or very little lost.
Not worth the effort.
|
This sums up business in the Philippines in a nutshell. It is purposely designed to benefit only the biggest oligopolies who own the means of production, access to supply chain, distribution, and the commercial centers.
So in the end if you are a small supplier or small business owner you are more or less subject to their whims unless you are the 1 in 130 million and find some small niche to grow.
The oligopolies have done tremendous damage to the business environment and potential growth in the Philippines. Not to mention the social cost has been quite high on the local population.
edit: I forgot to mention that even if you are a well established business entity it is also becoming increasingly hard to get good business loans in the Philippines. Philippine banks are another extortionate enterprise run by the same corrupt families who have investments in other aspects of the country.