In 2018, Rogelio “Roger” Santos, a 34-year-old man from Nueva Ecija, dreamed of escaping poverty by raising pigs. He rented a vacant section of a mountain in the town of Carranglan to turn it into a small piggery.
He used up all his savings, even took out a loan from the Land Bank of the Philippines, built pig pens, installed a deep well, and bought 30 piglets.
On the day he brought the first batch of pigs up the mountain, he proudly told his wife Marites, 31:
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