34-35 / 120
34
35
large, and jumbo. The equip-
ment can expose cracks,
candle, clean, grade, weigh,
and stamp 75 cases per hour.
Eggs represent approxi-
mately 71 percent of Coun-
try Foods’ business; beans,
18 percent; and rice about
11 percent. The cleaning of
beans is done either by con-
tract with Bel-Car, an export
and import company, or the
farmers clean the beans,
themselves, and Country
Foods rebags them. Beans
are grown by local farmers in
Country Foods
AT A GLANCE
Country
Foods
WHAT:
A distributor of
eggs and other farm
products
WHERE:
Spanish Lookout,
Belize
WEBSITE: www. countryfoods.bzRolando Reimer, General Manager
Country Foods, with a staff
of 27, sells eggs, beans, corn
meal, corn, and rice throughout
the country on a weekly basis
from its distribution center
in Spanish Lookout. Country
Foods produces over 50 per-
cent of Belize’s eggs – approx-
imately 127,300 cases per
year (360 eggs per case) –
from 85 different farmers.