Puebla, Puebla. The meat company from Puebla Vallpork of Mexicoannounced an investment of 2,000 million pesos for the raising and slaughter of pigs that will include small farmers who provide grains such as sorghum and corn to feed them and obtain quality meat.
The president of Vallpork Mexico, Salvador Lozano Torres, stressed that the project seeks to develop the pork industry in Puebla under a scheme of integration of the productive chain, which goes from the sowing of grain in the southern region of the state to animal production.
He explained that the scheme has been tested in Spain by Vallpork for 60 years, where it has been a leader in the meat market in Europeby developing an agricultural value chain that generates the inclusion of communities, to provide them with a safe and permanent activity.
The leader stressed that it is a necessary scheme because Mexico imports 45% of the pork consumed, in addition to representing an opportunity to increase exports of this product, which has been achieved by the health status achieved in the country.
He indicated that a social effect is also generated to help stop migration to other parts of the state or the country; “the rooting and development of the poblano countryside is encouraged”.
For his part, Josep Vall Esquerda, president of Grupo Vall Companys, said that in Europe they produce 5 million pigs and export 50% due to the constant demand that continues to grow.
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In the case of Pueblahe reiterated, the producers are integrated so that they open farms with a small investment, where the animal will be raised, for which they will be supplied with grain and veterinary assistance, and the company is in charge of the final sale of the meat, that is, assuming all the capital risk.
Meanwhile, Barbosa Huerta stressed that this investment helps to consolidate the agri-food cluster recently created by the state government and the Private Initiative, and that it is part of a strategy to strengthen production chains.
He indicated that “with this policy of clustering it seeks to increase the economic growth of the state in the remaining three years of the local six-year term, which in turn contributes to employment”.
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