Jamaican Pig Farmers to Benefit from CPJ-led Export Thrust

Caribbean Producers Jamaica Ltd, (CPJ) has identified several markets for the commercial export of Jamaican pork.

Pig farmers will benefit from the export, as CPJ will target markets in St Maarten, St Lucia, Antigua & Barbuda, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Aruba, and Curacao.

To drive the exports, CPJ has joined Sweet River Abattoir, one of the leading slaughterhouses in Jamaica that handles pigs supplied by almost 400 farmers from across the island.

Sweet River is building a new US$3-million abattoir in Westmoreland and farmers have also invested approximately US$3-million in growing operations in order to take advantage of the export opportunities. These investments will feed directly into CPJ's US$5-million, state-of-the-art meat processing plant at its Montego Bay headquarters....

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Adapted from The Pig Site.