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The Lar feed mill in Santa Helena, PR, Brazil.


PHOTOS: VINCENT TER BEEK


Why cooperative Lar wants to stay ‘clean’


I BY VINCENT TER BEEK, EDITOR, PIG PROGRESS


nside the control room of the Santa Helena feed plant a large green smiley is hanging on the wall. It is looking at four employees watching their screens. “It’s a sign that the plant is very clean,” says Carlos Eduardo Varnier, age 34, manager of the feed plant. “We have got staff who go through the plant regularly to make sure that everything is nice and clean. Then we give it a rate. Today everything was just fine.”


Cleanliness and good biosecurity are two of the pillars of Lar, one of Brazil’s largest agro-industrial cooperative. Now more than ever, the cooperative realises that keeping things clean and tidy, and stringently so, can make the difference be- tween profit or loss. For a few years now, times for Brazil’s


Brazil’s animal protein industry consists of various large cooperatives. One of the best known cooperatives is Lar, headquartered in Medianeira, PR, in the country’s south. With African Swine Fever ravaging Asia, opportunities are plentiful to step up its importance on a larger scale.


agro-industry have not been fantastic, but with African Swine Fever creating tremendous losses in Asia, export op- portunities loom. The disappearance of millions of pigs in China will lead to an increased demand for pork as well as any other given source of animal protein, like e.g. poultry, for which this particular plant is producing feed.


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