Greek Exporters

AGROFARMA  Founded in 2001, and our head office and farm is based in Larissa – Greece.

After 14 years of successful activity in breeding and processing snails, we are able to offer an excellent quality of snails. Our snails are from the type Helix Aspresa Muller (Petit Gris). This specie of snails is delicious for consumption and with guaranteed taste.  Over the years, we created new lines of production, and offered for sale the following products:

 

-Hibernated snails with expiration period of 6 months

-Blanched deeply frozen snails/boiled deeply frozen snails meat

-Canned snail meat ( without shell) in brine – 2 sizes

-Snail slime for cosmetic companies (From next year)

 

Our products are produces in special rooms, according the E.U. rules.

Snails are a high value food product with growing demand.

In recent years it is increasingly valued culinary and nutritional value of the snail. Also, in many cases the snails have been used for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products but also for cosmetics. Already from antiquity are evidence for the use of preparations based on snails. The natural stocks of edible snails have fallen because of their intensive collection and habitat degradation (deforestation, intensification of agricultural cultivation, fires, etc.). This inevitably led to the establishment and strengthening of rearing snails in different countries of the world, such as Spain, Canada, the United States, Italy and especially France.

The snail farming is a livestock industry with strong growth potential in the coming years.

 Increased demand for snails in European Union countries creates the conditions for guaranteed sale of snails produced at very high prices.

 All these data make clear the need for the creation of farms of snails that will help to overcome a number of problems related to the movement of snails to markets while protect from extinction the natural populations of snails.

 Dealing with snail farming requires knowledge concerning the biological cycle and physiology of snails and the installation of the kennel is made with specific technical requirements.