All well with modernization, but… Integrated poultry producers demand special funding to be able to

Poultry companies have been stressing the need for the poultry sector to update its available infrastructure, building around 1,200 new barns to improve efficiency and productivity. According to data provided by these companies, the investment per barn would be close to $300,000. That would imply outlays of $360 million. It is money that is not in the chain and should be provided by the financial system, although access to credit is increasingly complicated by the high rates imposed by the national monetary policy. That is the diagnosis of the large integrated companies, which produce the chickens from the eggs and provide the necessary feed to bring them to a slaughter weight of more than 2 kilos. They say that to continue growing, a major update of the breeding barns is needed. The biggest problem is that these barns are not in their hands but in the hands of another link in this production chain, which are the "integrated" ones, that is, those producers who provide the barn, ...