Lesson 25: Vocabulary in context practice activity 1
Read the short text to work out the contextual meaning of the words/phrases written in bold.
Currently there are more than 20 private large scale commercial poultry production farms located in and around Addis Ababa, and Bishoftu. ELFORA, Alema and Genesis are the top 3 largest commercial poultry farms with modern production and processing facilities. Established in 1997, ELFORA has large scale poultry farms at 4 different locations and sub-locations. ELFORA has modern broiler processing and packing units. It produces table eggs, broiler meat and day old chicks. The slaughtering service has a capacity of 500,000 kg/year. ELFORA annually delivers around 420,000 chickens and over 34 million eggs to the markets in Addis Ababa. Alema Farm is the second largest enterprise delivering nearly half a million broilers to Addis Ababa market every year. It has its own parent stock from Holland, a feed processing plant, hatchery, slaughtering plant, cold storage and transport facility at its sites of operation. Genesis farm is the third most important private poultry enterprise with over 10,000 layers and its own parent stock and hatchery. Genesis farm is the major source of breeding stock and commercial feed for the modern private poultry sector.