Mantiqueira committed to ‘free’ 2,5 million layers until 2025

Mantiqueira, the largest egg producer in South America, announced that it will build 2 new farms for a total of 2.5 million cage free layers before 2025. Currently, the company already has one farm with an aviary system in Rio de Janeiro. The plan is to reach the milestone of 1 million cage free layers by the end of 2021. In total, Mantiqueira grows 11.5 million hens annually. According to them, Mantiqueira is a pioneer on large scale cage free housing in Brazil and has been developing, new pro