Industrial Visit At The Sea Food Processing Factory

Last Saturday on the 31^st of December few of the batch mates made a tour to the factory of my father. It was full of fun and excitement and for me too was a great experience. All got a through understanding of the operations process which takes place in the factory. Most of them were amazed to see the effort put into it for processing and the processes used in order to market the products in the European markets. It is much more than just sending sea food to a foreign country in a container.

All got the rare opportunity of observing the almost all the stages of the entire operations process starting from the purchasing of the materials from the suppliers, unloading, weighing and categorising depending on the weight, cleaning, putting, arranging, freezing, loading for the shipment.

Later in the day all went to the farm of us which is located some kilometres down to Puttlam road and got an insight about the aqua culturing. I think all were amazed to see how technical it is and how hard it would be to manage a farm which spans across many acres with utmost care whilst ensuring the quality of an array of measurements needed to the development of healthy prawns.

They got one of the rarest opportunities one would get, which is to get inside a hatchery where the breeding takes place and to see how it all happens. Even for me one of the great experiences was to see a mother prawn weighing 320g which had produced more than 45,000 babies. We visited the ponds where the prawn develops into the mature stage and all got a briefing from the Chief Quality Supervisor about the entire process.

At the end the back at the factory all had a friendly discussion as to how the marketing aspect happen for the exported sea food from Sri Lanka and the developments in the international sea food markets.

At the end of the day I feel very happy about the outing and I think all who visited would have also felt the same apart from the vast amount experience all gained during the visit.