GLOBALPIG A. CASSANYÉ: “THE TECNAPUR SYSTEM IS VERY VERSATILE, EASY TO USE AND HAS A LOW HANDLING COST”
With a capacity for 1,600 sows, the Cassanyé Farm belongs to the Gescaser family business, founded in 1973, and located in the town of Almacelles (Lleida). Swine farming has always been very present in Antonio Cassanyé’s day-to-day life. From a young age, he lived very close to his father’s farm, located in Almacelles (Lleida), and in 1998, at the end of his studies in Agronomy, he joined the family business. Aware of the environmental demands that the sector must face, last January, Cassanyé decided to install the Tecnapur solids and liquids separator. Over these months, the farmer has already seen first-hand the benefits of working with Rotecna’s slurry management system. What is the origin of the farm? Cassanyé Farm belongs to the family business Gescaser, founded in 1973. In its early days, the farm began as a 12
Antonio Cassanyé with the Tecnapur separator. Photo: Rotecna.
fattening farm. A few years later, after the good results obtained, my father decided to introduce the first sows, ten at first. Since then, the business has been growing, and after several renovations and expansions, the farm can currently accommodate some 1,600 bristles. How is it distributed? On the one hand, we have a gestation unit that has approximately 1,200 places. On the other hand, we also have a lactation unit with 400 slots, a replenishment with 500 spaces and a heat detection unit.
What led you to install Tecnapur’s mechanical slurry separation system? We decided over the last year, and we did so to comply with all the requirements set by environmental legislation regarding the treatment of slurry to move forward with our activity. That is, we decided to install Tecnapur to be more environmentally friendly and more selfsufficient. With this vision of the future, last January, we started implementing the Tecnapur separator, and now we are finishing the testing period to implement the
