Tuesday 6 October 2015

Pussalla to invest Rs. 900 m on poultry feed mill

Vishmi Wijeratne (vishmiwijeratne.wishwonder@gmail.com)

Pussalla Meat Producers, a leading poultry producer in Sri Lanka,signed an agreement with Andritz feed milling and bio fuel company in Denmark to build a fully automated poultry feed milling facility.

The total investment of the project is Rs. 900 million and constructed at Udamapitigama, Dompe in the Gampaha district.

“The mill capacity is 20 tonnes per hour and capable of producing 12,000 metric tonnes of feed per month,” Pussalla Meat Producers, Managing Director, Philip J. Wewita said.

The mill possesses its own silos for required grain storage and plans to use 100% totally produced maize for its production.

With the completion of the feed mill, Pussalla becomes the only totally integrated poultry producer in Sri Lanka having grandparent farm, parent farms, Commercial broiler farms, processing plant, further processing plant, islandwide distributor network and meatshop chain.

Pussalla Meat Producer is a company which already achieved ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000:2005, ISO 14001:2004, ISO 50001:2011. The company possesses the biggest grandparent farm in the country, exporting 50% of its Parent Stock production to South Asian countries.

Pussalla produces 25% of the country’s day old broiler chick requirement. With the completion of the feed mill direct employment of the company reach 1500 employees and the company will begin commercial production of poultry feed in the next two months.

This is the first feed mill in the country built according to the international standards by a Sri Lankan entrepreneur.
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