Brazil: meat will be the focus of new alligator business
06/11/2014
During a recent visit to the new site in Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, by local government officials, one of the investors, Wilson Girardi, said his company was aiming to produce 100,000 kilos of alligator meat per year and had plans to set up a tourist visitor centre and gourmet restaurant at the plant.
Skins will go into leather production, he said, but off site: he and his partners have no intention of building a tannery.
Corumbá is a popular tourist destination because it serves as the gateway to the largest tropical wetlands area in the world, the Pantanal. Mr Girardi said all the necessary environmental and livestock permits were in place and that the operation would cause no harm to the Pantanal.
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