May 31, 2007

San Miguel Foods to put up a training broiler farm

With its tax incentives and other perks, Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Foods, Inc. (SMFI) will establish a training broiler farm as part of an integrated agro-industrial zone to provide training facility for current and new SMFI technical personnel and potential investors.

The project will also serve as a showcase to contractors, giving them the option to choose between new or old technologies.

The facility is comprised of 273,600 bird model/training broilers with an approximate cost P167 million (US$3.61 million), and have a production capacity of 1.915 million grown broilers per annum with an average live weight of 2.2 kilograms.

The company will adopt the controlled climate housing system technology, which needs tunnel ventilation, cross ventilation and evaporative cooling systems. The bird will be grown for 38 days and processed at the nearest SMFI process plant.

Poultry production is covered by the 2006 Investment Priorities Plan, a list of industries that could avail of tax and other incentives from the government.