Cargill inaugurates integrated poultry operation in Lai'an, Anhui
Cargill held the inauguration ceremony of its world-class integrated poultry operation in Lai'an, Anhui. Gary Locke, ambassador of the United States of America to China; Chris Langholz, president of Cargill Animal Protein China; Stan Ryan, corporate vice president of Cargill, and representatives from Chinese government agencies participated in the ceremony.
The fully-integrated project covers each stage of the poultry supply chain, including chicken breeding, raising, feed production, hatching, slaughtering and processing. Cargill incorporated its state-of-the-art technologies and innovations in food safety, poultry breeding, animal nutrition, disease prevention, environmental protection and energy saving into the project. The facility has the capacity to process approximately 65 million chickens per year, as well as 176,000 metric tonnes poultry products per year. Total investment for the project is approximately US$250 million.