Thai giant completes the circle: Strategies for development at an integrator in Thailand that aims to have 10,000 parent-stock SPF sows by the end of 2005 and is building pork product exports to Japan

摘要

A new abattoir and meat processing facility in the Lopburi province of Thailand was officially commissioned on 10th December 2004. The opening of this plant has forged the final link in an integrated pig-meat marketing chain for one of the country's leading agribusiness enterprises and marks the culmination of a development strategy which began 25 years ago. It has been opened by the Betagro Group, already the world's fourth-largest poultry exporter and now set to become a major international supplier of pigmeat. Chaivat Taepaisitphongse, founder and chairman of the group, sums up the principles of the export strategy which he 'initiated back in 1980 when he says it aims to "foster international relationships and adhere to the highest standards of quality and hygiene in the production of safe food".