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construction was ongoing to have a new warehouse built for raw materials, whereby more optimal and more clever usage of the plant should guarantee that further growth is possible. For 2019, a total production is envisaged of 780,000 tonnes of complete feed for poultry (both broilers and broiler breeders), but in 2020 it is projected that the plant has to be able to do 900,000 tonnes. Inside the plant indeed everything looks meticulous, with hardly any traces of dust to be seen. Staff is wearing protec- tive clothes and helmets inside, walkways and storage areas are clearly defined on the floor and the rooms are kept tidy. Most important raw materials are soybeans and corn, all grown locally. In total 36 ingredients are being added, to lead to 13 different rations for the animals – eight being for broil- ers and five being for layers. The corn is being brought in at a different entrance to the soybeans at the facility, and from there is transported diagonally through a wire connection to the feed mill. The majority of Lar’s business is concentrated around the poultry business, Varnier explains. In total the cooperative works with 1,500 poultry farm members, totalling some 20 million birds, in a 150km radius around the feed plant. The Santa Helena plant obtains its feed raw materials from over 10,000 associate farmers from surrounding states like Paraná, Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso do Sul – and even farmers from neighbouring Paraguay supply to the Santa He- lena plant. The larger supplying farms have specialised, ex- plains Varnier. “Some smaller farms indeed do everything, from corn production to keeping livestock. The larger members only focus on growing crops.” All in all, the message is very clear. Considering that the south of Brazil has a vast potential for growing crops and animal pro- tein for the entire world, the opportunities had better be very well planned and protected. Preferably as cleanly as possible.
A Lar supermarket ìn São Miguel do Iguaçu.
Poultry sale under the Frimesa brand in the Lar supermarket.
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