MANILA, Philippines – Newly formed Inoza Development Corp. recently filed two integrated projects worth P583.9 million with the Board of Investments (BOI).
The first project is for the toll hatching of broiler (chicken) in Barangay Pada-pada, Gerona, Tarlac while the second project involves the toll production of broiler chicken to be located in nearby Barrio San Pedro, Bamban, Tarlac.
The Filipino-owned company’s proposed hatchery facility will employ a single stage incubation system instead of the traditional multi-stage incubation. It will be made up of 20 state-of-the-art setting machines with a capacity of hatching 115,200 each or 2.3 million eggs for 1 hatching cycle of 21 days or up to 40 million day-old-chicks annually.
The all-in-all-out hatching system aims to achieve uniformity in egg hatching and ease in facility cleaning, sanitation and disinfection immediately after the 21-day hatching period. All the more impressive is the hatching environment wherein the temperature, humidity and ventilation are digitally controlled and contingent on the specific requirements of hatching stages.
The P231.4 million facility which is expected to employ 57 personnel is slated to commence operation in January 2011. The P352.5 million facility will employ 25 personnel when commercial operation starts on February 2011.
The second Inoza project which is the broiler growing facility will be dubbed as the “Blueberry Farm” since the firm claims it will be one of the most cutting edge facilities of its kind. It will be made up of 20 buildings each with a capacity of producing 45,000 broilers/building/growing cycle of just 30-32 days or up to 6.3 million heads annually. It will also be fully mechanical and computerized wherein the broiler chicks are expected to grow faster than the traditional open-sided growing of broiler chicks of 45 days. The capacity per square meter would be doubled from the usual average of 10 to 20 heads and it will make use of cool cell technologies to control the temperature inside the buildings.
Inoza’s toll hatching and broiler chicken production will cater exclusively to its sister company, Bounty Fresh Foods, Inc. (BFFI) which is one of the largest poultry producers in the country and one of the biggest suppliers of fresh chicken to various local institutional food and restaurant companies as well as the leading supermarket businesses.