As many of other posters on this forum, I am married to a Isaan-lady. And over the the years there has been constant flow of moneytransfers from HH to Buriram. As my wife has got her own money (not from me) this has never been of any great concern for me. I have visited the family-village quite frequently, because I like Isaan and my inlaws, and at least in the beginning tried to "teach" the family how to do things more rationally. They listened politely and ofcourse nothing happened!!
About 3 years ago I read an article somewhere, about a hilltripe woman, who had created a life for her family by raising wildpigs. A week later I visited the Queens Farm here in HH and they had 15 wildpig piglets for sale. With the article still fresh in my mind, I decided "what the hell, why not?" After fixing the necessery paperwork for transporting the animals from the local vet, early one morning we left for Buriram with 15 piglets in the back of the pick-up. A few stops along the way to feed and water the piglets and we arrived in the village late afternoon, where all the "masterminds" told us that white pigs (as Thais call red pigs) were much better business, and to bring the wildpigs, we came with, was more than less a waste of gasolinemoney. Exactly what you want to hear after an 8 hour drive !!
Next day we fenced 2 rai of land and build a simple roof for shadow. Instructed the inlaws to grow corn and bananas for food as animalfeed is very expensive. I know my wife despite that has been feeding the animals via the ATM.
To make a long story short, a week ago I asked my wife, if she was still feeding the pigs and surprise, surprise she told me, that for the last 5 months she had not sent any money back home, because the pigbusiness was thriving. Whenever there was a party in the village or surroundings the family sold a pig or two. Having even sold quite a few pig couples to villagers who want to start their own pigfarms. And this was the "masterminds", who told us, how stupid we were.
So the 2 rai has become 10 and today there are more than 200 pigs running around, doing no harm to the soil whatsoever, the family has a little money in the bank and even if we do not talk about, I think they are quite proud of themselves.
And the meat is really good, from animals living a natural life.
I know some of the posters here live in the rural parts of the country, and to you I can recommend wildpigs, they are funny and intelligent animals and brings meat on the table. And if you do not live to close to traffic, you do not need to take the fencing all too seriously. Half of the familys pigs are outside the fence most of the time, come home when they are hungry.
A different way to give the family a helping hand.
thaiorchid
Wildpig-farming in Isaan.
Hmmmmmm..............Farming? Be careful dude, there are a lot of pit falls man. "Success" is a rare thing here in this particular business regardless of what you hear from "others". The system is almost designed to work against you. How many successful farangs do you know? Only a few man! There are a few but they are conspicuous by their scarcity. 
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JD and Terry etc are exempt
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Pigs running freely just becarefull they dont invade someones veggie patch i have seen this in our village in Surin and it is quite a problem, also if you get offered a business deal to supply animal feed etc run a mile towards HH i now someone that got involed in this and time all the hidden extra's came out of the wood work he lost a lot of money and it was his mrs doing the business.
I believe pigs are a good business if your up there in Issan we had a party on our land before building the house 3 month old pig 70kg's 3600Baht and the only thing thrown away was the bowl sack !
Kendo.
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I believe pigs are a good business if your up there in Issan we had a party on our land before building the house 3 month old pig 70kg's 3600Baht and the only thing thrown away was the bowl sack !
Kendo.
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Yes, you can never make any real money out of farming in Issan, we just do a bit on some land given by my partners elderly mother but it's only really to give the family a bit of work.
With rice farming it's very hard to make anything at all and it would be nice if they could do something that actually turned a profit, however small.
With rice farming it's very hard to make anything at all and it would be nice if they could do something that actually turned a profit, however small.
My wife could never do that on her farm in Issan. After raising them for a while she would want to keep all of the pigs as pets! 
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Re: Wildpig-farming in Isaan.
Congrats! Wonderful success story. Let's have some morethaiorchid wrote:As many of other posters on this forum, I am married to a Isaan-lady. And over the the years there has been constant flow of moneytransfers from HH to Buriram. As my wife has got her own money (not from me) this has never been of any great concern for me. I have visited the family-village quite frequently, because I like Isaan and my inlaws, and at least in the beginning tried to "teach" the family how to do things more rationally. They listened politely and ofcourse nothing happened!!
About 3 years ago I read an article somewhere, about a hilltripe woman, who had created a life for her family by raising wildpigs. A week later I visited the Queens Farm here in HH and they had 15 wildpig piglets for sale. With the article still fresh in my mind, I decided "what the hell, why not?" After fixing the necessery paperwork for transporting the animals from the local vet, early one morning we left for Buriram with 15 piglets in the back of the pick-up. A few stops along the way to feed and water the piglets and we arrived in the village late afternoon, where all the "masterminds" told us that white pigs (as Thais call red pigs) were much better business, and to bring the wildpigs, we came with, was more than less a waste of gasolinemoney. Exactly what you want to hear after an 8 hour drive !!
Next day we fenced 2 rai of land and build a simple roof for shadow. Instructed the inlaws to grow corn and bananas for food as animalfeed is very expensive. I know my wife despite that has been feeding the animals via the ATM.
To make a long story short, a week ago I asked my wife, if she was still feeding the pigs and surprise, surprise she told me, that for the last 5 months she had not sent any money back home, because the pigbusiness was thriving. Whenever there was a party in the village or surroundings the family sold a pig or two. Having even sold quite a few pig couples to villagers who want to start their own pigfarms. And this was the "masterminds", who told us, how stupid we were.
So the 2 rai has become 10 and today there are more than 200 pigs running around, doing no harm to the soil whatsoever, the family has a little money in the bank and even if we do not talk about, I think they are quite proud of themselves.
And the meat is really good, from animals living a natural life.
I know some of the posters here live in the rural parts of the country, and to you I can recommend wildpigs, they are funny and intelligent animals and brings meat on the table. And if you do not live to close to traffic, you do not need to take the fencing all too seriously. Half of the familys pigs are outside the fence most of the time, come home when they are hungry.
A different way to give the family a helping hand.
thaiorchid
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