The company -- based in Navegantes, a port city in the south of Brazil -- has recently acquired mussel and oyster farming firm Cavalo Marinho and plan to invest in expanding and automating its production.
“Cavalo Marinho will be structured in way to transform Brazilian mussel farming -- which is considered unsustainable today -- into an agri-business, by means of large-scale farming practices,” a spokesman for the company told IntraFish.
To increase production at Cavalo Marinho -- which is based in Palhoca -- Leardini will invest BRL 30 million (€13.1
