PHOTO REPORT: El Salvador hosts ALA Congress

In November, El Salvador played host to the biennial ALA poultry congress and show. The theme of this year’s show was “Healthy food and employment for Latin America”. World Poultry was present to capture all the happenings.

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Prior to the opening ceremony the anthem of El Salvador is respectfully sung.
All ALA officials on stage.
Pablo Alcides Ochoa, Minister for Agriculture and Livestock of El Salvador addressing the audience.
Children bring in the flags of all the ALA member countries.
A well organised conference programme running concurrently with the trade show.
Everywhere on the streets of the expo centre the logo of the congress.
A massive wall painting on one of the congress buildings, displaying the past and present of El Salvador.
No question which event is being held in the congress centre.
Staff members everywhere, helping the congress attendants. But also lunch time for them.
Well known suppliers to the industry displaying at the tradeshow.
Kohshin Engineering from Japan, propagating their composting device.
Always at a major show is Alltech.
Zoetis, formerly known as Pfizer Poultry Health.
Zinpro, specialists in performance minerals.
Petersime from Belgium, neighbouring to Prinzen and Vencomatic from The Netherlands.
In every corner of the world: Marel Stork Poultry Processing.
Criaves is Hyline distributor for El Salvador and a major exporter to many countries in Central America.
The biggest sponsor of the ALA congress is Cobb breeding.
Thanks to historical ties, Tigsa from Spain is an important supplier in Latin America.
Impex, with offices in The Netherlands and USA, are specialists in drinking systems.
GSI Group is part of AGCO corporation and are housing and silo specialists.
A poster presentation in the upper gallery of the show, is part of the conference programme.
Lively atmosphere at the tradeshow.
In the Americas, ChickMaster from the USA is from history in a leading position.
ALA 2013 in El Salvador: a very well organised event.

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One comment

Yunis M.G. Said

31 Dec 2013 16:14

we look proudly to the new progress in the poultry plants in Latin America and this which make us sure that the world will never face a shortage in food consumption .