Growth in Poultry Production in Honduras

Climatic factors and a fall in international prices are some of the reasons for the reduction of 50% in the volume exported in 2016 compared to the previous year.

Monday, August 7, 2017

Two poultry plants that Inversiones Blackbird recently opened will have capacity to process about 7.5 million chickens a year. Bruce Burdett, owner of Blackbird Investments, explained to Laprensa.hn that   "... they will produce more than a million chickens every seven weeks." 

See also: "Central American Sausage Trade Up 6%"

Jenny Pineda, operations manager of the company, commented: "... "We have built two farms with capacity for 40 employees each and a very large projection of poultry cargo for the local market."  Each farm has 12 galleries that are 150 meters long and 16 meters wide."

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