Perdigão To Open New Plants
17 August 07 A total of R$380 million (US$ 140 million) was invested in two plants in
Mato Grosso - a chicken plant, Mary Loise, in Nova Mutum previously
purchased and renovated by Perdigão and a beef packing plant in Mirassol D’Oeste.
- 90,000 hectares under
cultivation - average production 60 sacks per
hectare.
- planted after soybean harvest
(Jan-May)
Poultry:
In expansion.
Perdigão
will be slaughtering 148,000 chickens by the first of 2007; 248,000 by 2008
Land:
Cash price for cleared and
producing land is R$7,000 ha. (Dec 2007) Argentineans have entered the
NM land market.
Bunge Foods Opens New Plant
in Nova Mutum 17
June 09
Governor
Blairo Maggi will participate in the opening ceremonies of the
industrial complex of Bunge Alimentos along with Sérgio
Waldrich, President Bunge Brasil, and the Mayor, Mr. Lírio
Lautenschalger. The plant is designed to process soybeans, degummed
oil and meal for domestic and foreign markets. This will be the
company's second largest plant in Brazil and first in the area of
extraction in a single line. It is the 28th unit in Mato Grosso.
The factory was built in 14 months,
has 34 thousand square meters of built area on 200 hectares and
should generate 100 direct jobs. The annual capacity is 1.3 million
MT of soybeans, with a storage silo for 100 tons of grain. Bunge
Alimentos is one of the leading food and agribusinesses in Brazil.
