WORLD OF PIGS ▶▶▶
Why cooperative Lar wants to stay ‘clean’
Brazil’s animal protein industry comprises various large cooperatives. One of the best known is Lar, headquartered in Medianeira, PR, in the country’s south. With African Swine Fever ravaging Asia, opportunities are plentiful to promote its own products on a wider scale.
The new Van Aarsen feed pro- duction line in the plant in San- ta Helena.
I BY VINCENT TER BEEK, EDITOR, PIG PROGRESS
nside the control room of the Santa Helena feed plant a large green smiley hangs on the wall. It looks out over four employees studying their screens. “It’s a sign that the plant is very clean,” says Carlos Eduardo Varnier (34), man-
ager of the feed plant. “We have staff who go through the plant regularly to make sure that everything is nice and clean.
Then we give it a rating. Today everything was just fine.” Cleanliness and good biosecurity are two of the main princi- ples at Lar, one of Brazil’s largest agro-industrial cooperatives. Now more than ever, the cooperative realises that keeping things clean and tidy – and thoroughly so – can make all the difference between profit and loss. For a few years now, times for Brazil’s agro-industry have not been great, but with Afri- can Swine Fever causing tremendous losses in Asia, export opportunities are emerging. The disappearance of millions of pigs in China will lead to an increased demand for pork as well as other sources of animal protein, like poultry, and it is poultry feed that this particular plant produces.
Recent spur in expansion Although the cooperative has already existed for 55 years, re- cently Lar has begun gearing up extensively in southern Bra- zil. Varnier’s plant was founded with one feed production line in 2002 and has expanded over the years to reach four in 2016. All the feed production lines were set up in cooperation with the Netherlands-based feed mill manufacturer Van Aars- en and its Brazilian distributor Schneider. Lar chose to work
8 ▶PIG PROGRESS | Volume 35, No. 9, 2019
PHOTO: VINCENT TER BEEK
PHOTO: VINCENT TER BEEK
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