A MODERN slaughterhouse that can process 1,000 hogs daily will operate in Asturias town by December 2019.

The 5,000-square-meter facility is part of the 360-hectare property owned by Virginia Farms Inc.

Rolando Tambago, president of Virginia Farms Inc., said they partnered with European companies to ensure that every cut of meat is at its best quality.

Tambago said the company’s new slaughterhouse is different from the others, from the process of slaughtering the hogs to the distribution of meats to their meat shops.

He also highlighted the safety of their hogs amidst the African swine fever issue in Luzon.

“We have the best practices in bio-security and one of our strengths is we have a huge property and we are very far from the neighborhood. Aside from that, we have adapted a protocol of bio-security, every part of this slaughterhouse building has a different protocol. This is to make sure that everything is safe,” he said.

Tambago said their breeding method is called the Great Grand Parent and imports hogs from the US and Canada.

However, Tambago said they don’t always import hogs from Canada and US because one hog can already produce at least 11 hogs.

“We don’t always need to import because once these hogs produce, let’s say 11 hogs, then there is no need to import much,” said Tambago in a media tour of the Asturias facility on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019.

He said in slaughtering the hogs, they make sure that it will not be stressful for the hogs.

“If the hogs are not stressed then its meat quality will be much better,” Tambago added.

Aside from producing the best meat quality, Tambago also said that they also want to improve the social economic needs of Asturias.

The new slaughterhouse of Virginia Farms will pave the way to more job opportunities to the residents of the midwestern town. (RSR)