What a busy day! Today we visited a very large agricultural production facility here in Panama. The company was known as Grupa Calesa, which has eight different entities: sugar, rice, seeds, fruit, feed mill, cattle & sheep, aquaculture, seafood processing and distribution.
This compay brings in about $92 million dollars per year, has 3,000 permanent employees and 2,000 temporary employees and is recognized as the largest agricultural company in Panama. They farm 21,000 hectares or 55,000-60,000 acres of land.
This farm is centered around research and development which is seen in their shrimp aquaculture facility. They have the only white spot virus resistant shrimp in the world which was developed by their researchers.
We spent the entire day touring the facilities and talking with the CEO of the company Hanz.
After a long day we head to dinner and celebrated Marty's birthday. Then we were off to debreif the day and crash as I was exhausted.
From Panama, The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same,
Matt
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