Finca Camaronera los Búfalos

Nowadays the company the Los Búfalos shrimp farm creates 98 jobs throughout the year. Additionally, 115 contracts related to the harvesting, planting, construction, and maintenance department have been created as well. The majority of the firm workforce is represented by local families of the Municipalities of Morazán, Tonalá, Palacios, El Viejo, Chinandega and small surrounding districts. Los bufalo Together with the Finca Inversa have been a source of wealth and employment for these communities.

Currently, Los Bufalos farm comprises 286.00 hectares of water surface  annually producing between 1.2 and 1.6 million pounds of shrimp with an average of 3 to 4 thousand pounds per hectare per cycle. Such remarkable results have been achieved with motivational as well as retributional working policies and a constant pursuit of quality for our products.

The company’s future goals are to increase hectare per production yields and  continue the its expansion in the conceded area. If such goals were to be achieved the company would turn into the third largest in the country with around 850 hectares of water in production and 90 lagoons. This kind of outlook would also create employment to more than 400 families considering both direct and indirect work positions.

Los Búfalos SA is an ambitious project that every year has been solving all the problems it has faced and has managed to maintain positive balance sheets and in a sustainable manner. In order to preserve the highest standards in terms of quality the company has been committed in: updating the procedures to prevent the impact of new diseases, improving production systems and enhancing efficiencies within the operational departments. We firmly believe in community development and in the preservation of the environment that makes the scope of our work possible.

Los Búfalos S.A. social work

Currently Los Búfalos S.A. It carries out sport, training, extra-curricular and environmental activities in the municipalities and schools of the surrounding areas. Moreover the company organizes an annual reforestation event in Mangle Rojo and has also planned new projects on the conservation of animal species that are in danger of extinction.