The Ministry of Agriculture is investing in the construction of two new abattoirs while upgrading the current one up at North Sound.

This is part of the overall plan to develop our agricultural infrastructure to support increased local meat production.

We must be able to better prepare meats in order to meet our local demand.

For example, our people consume about 15,000 pigs a year.

The current abattoir isn’t anywhere near that kind of processing capacity.

In order to realize our goal of substituting imports we are therefore improving our meat processing capacity, to enable scaled up local meat production to fulfil the local demand.