Home made and good
THIS week, we continue to feature local manufacturers as part of the `Buy Local' campaign which was launched this month. Once more, we urge manufacturers, both large and small, to send in information to the Sunday Chronicle, telling us about your company. Write to Sunday Chronicle, Lama Avenue, Bel Air Park. Or fax us at 50663 or 75208. Today, we will talk a bit about Bounty Farm Limited (BFL) and Fairfield Investments Limited (FFIL), both part of the John Fernandes Limited Group of Companies. Bounty Farm was established as a limited liability company in 1976. Its operations include the hatching, raising and processing of poultry, rearing of swine and the mixing of feed for sale. The company imports hatching eggs which they custom hatch. An average of 60 per cent of the chicks is placed on the farms by BFL while the remainder is sold to other farmers. BFL raises between 300,000 to 350,000 broilers every 10 weeks on their two farms and a number of contract farms. At present, the feed factory produces an average of 72 tons of feed per day. About 68 per cent of the feed produced is utilised by BFL and the remainder is sold to the public. Bounty Farm has a large, modern plant which has the capacity to produce 1,000 broilers per hour. While 43 per cent of the total production is supplied to Bounty's Meat Centre, the remainder is sold to three of the major fast food companies as well as to most of the leading hotels, restaurants and supermarkets in Georgetown. *************** Fairfield Investments Limited was established in April, 1985. Its business is growing, milling and exporting rice and raising poultry. It produces about 25 per cent of its paddy requirements and purchases the remainder from local farmers. It sells about 30 per cent of its rice production locally, and the remaining 70 per cent is exported to the European Union, Africa, and the Caribbean. All of its poultry production is sold live to its sister company, Bounty Farm Limited. FFIL consists of one property, Fairfield Estate, situated at Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara, about 30 miles east of Georgetown. It consists of approximately 800 acres of land - 350 acres of which are presently under rice cultivation - a 2.5 metric-ton-per-hour rice milling operation, and two 20,000 broiler chicken units. The company has 500 permanent employees. (Gwen Evelyn) 
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