Publications

• The Philippine Recommends for Pork Production (PR Series No. 13/1996) is a comprehensive semi-technical publication which contains packages of technology and information on swine production. Breeds, breeding and breed selection; feeds and feeding; housing and management; health care; and marketing are among the topics contained in this publication. It also contain a sample feasibility study of a 100-sow level piggery operation. This publication is intended for livestock technicians and extension workers, progressive farmers, teachers, students and others directly or indirectly involved in swine production.
• The Philippine Recommends for Animal Health (PR Series No. 65-A/2002) is a semi-technical publication which contains packages of technology on the prevention and control of livestock and poultry diseases. This publication is intended for livestock technicians and extension workers, progressive farmers, teachers, students and others directly or indirectly involved in livestock and poultry production.
• The Philippine Recommends for Meat Processing (1991) is a semi-technical publication which contains packages of technology on the preservation and processing of livestock and poultry meats; and packaging and marketing of meat products. This publication is intended for livestock technicians and extension workers, progressive farmers, teachers, students and others directly or indirectly involved in meat processing and marketing.
• Technology: Artificial Insemination in Pigs (Vol. XVI, No. 2/1994) is a summarized and popularized publication containing packages of technology and information on boar selection and evaluation; semen collection, evaluation, processing and storage, estrus detection, procedure of insemination, breeding performance evaluation and economic returns assessment of AI center operation. This publication is intended for policy makers; swine raisers; teachers; students and researchers.
• Technology: Copra Meal in Swine Rations (Vol. IX, No. 3/1987) is a summarized and popularized publication containing the technology on the utilization of copra meal up to 50% of swine rations. This publication is intended for policy makers, swine raisers, teachers, students and researchers.
• Hog Statistics in the Philippines (Data Series No. 8/1992) . This publication attempts to consolidate statistical data of the swine commodity. Contained in this publication are the inventory; volume and value production, foreign trade, supply and utilization and prices of both live hogs and pork in the Philippines.
• Gabay sa Pangangasiwa ng Triple Cross na Baboy (PCARRD Farm Primer No. 18/2000) . This farm primer illustrates the production and management of triple cross pigs from choosing the right piglet to raise up to marketing. Also included in the primer is the Bureau of Animal Industry's ~ Tubular Polyethylene Digester (TPED) for biogas production.
• A Training Module on Swine Record Keeping (Module Series No. 3/2000) . This module contains modularized lessons on the various aspects of swine record keeping. Through the monitoring of Swine Production Performance Project, the production as well as the reproductive performances of commercial swine farms in the Philippines has been analyzed using this system of recording.