{"id":5072,"date":"2021-07-19T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:00:48","slug":"grupo-costa-leads-the-way-in-europe-with-a-new-farm-in-teruel-implementing-a-digital-feeding-system-and-specially-designed-spaces-to-improve-animal-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/grupo-costa-leads-the-way-in-europe-with-a-new-farm-in-teruel-implementing-a-digital-feeding-system-and-specially-designed-spaces-to-improve-animal-welfare\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Grupo Costa leads the way in Europe with a new farm in Teruel, implementing a digital feeding system and specially designed spaces to improve animal welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"
Samper de Calanda hosts this state-of-the-art facility, with a capacity for 3,300 sows, in which 7 million euros have been invested to create 15 direct jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00abPork Calanda\u00bb, the Group’s first farm in the province of Teruel, has been developed under strict sustainability criteria, mainly to ensure animal welfare and a circular economy<\/strong><\/p>\n This Monday, Grupo Empresarial Costa has opened its first farm in the province of Teruel<\/strong>. \u201cPork Calanda\u201d is located in Samper de Calanda and its highly advanced facilities<\/strong> will provide work for 15 direct employees<\/strong>. The pig farm is the latest addition to the 850 that Grupo Costa already owns in Aragon, Navarre, Catalonia, Extremadura and Castile and Leon.<\/p>\n It represents an investment of 7 million euros<\/strong>, has a capacity of\u00a03,300 sows<\/strong>\u00a0with piglet transition up to 18 kilos and has been developed under strict sustainability\u00a0<\/strong>criteria, mainly to ensure animal welfare<\/strong>. As Eduardo Costa, Production Director of\u00a0Piensos Costa<\/a>, explains, it has state-of-the-art technologies for food, health and water treatment processes: \u201cIt is\u00a0one of the most advanced farms in Europe due to its digital feeding system to improve animal welfare<\/strong>. Its different spaces have been designed to prioritise maximum well-being for the sows<\/strong>, so that the mothers are free to move throughout the whole gestation period, in dynamic groups of 300 sows.<\/p>\n \u201cOn the other hand, it has a system based on\u00a0the processes of a circular economy<\/strong>,\u00a0where the by-products generated are controlled to provide added value to the fields close to the farm\u00bb, Costa explains.<\/p>\n The opening ceremony was attended by Manuel Rando, president of the Provincial Council of Teruel (DPT); Alfonso P\u00e9rez, mayor of Samper de Calanda; Jes\u00fas Lobera, director of the Aragonese Institute of Environmental Management (INAGA); and Eduardo Costa Casas and Eduardo Costa Cerezuela, CEO and Production director of Piensos Costa respectively.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jes\u00fas Lobera (director of INAGA), Manuel Rando (president of the Provincial Council of Teruel), Alfonso P\u00e9rez (mayor of Samper de Calanda) and Eduardo Costa (Production director of Piensos Costa)<\/p>\n