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34 35 large, and jumbo. The equip- ment can expose cracks, candle, clean, grade, weigh, and stamp 75 cases per hour. Eggs represent approxi- mately 71 percent of Coun- try Foods’ business; beans, 18 percent; and rice about 11 percent. The cleaning of beans is done either by con- tract with Bel-Car, an export and import company, or the farmers clean the beans, themselves, and Country Foods rebags them. Beans are grown by local farmers in COUNTRY FOODS AT A GLANCE COUNTRY FOODS WHAT: A distributor of eggs and other farm products WHERE: Spanish Lookout, Belize WEBSITE: www. countryfoods.bz Rolando Reimer, General Manager Country Foods, with a staff of 27, sells eggs, beans, corn meal, corn, and rice throughout the country on a weekly basis from its distribution center in Spanish Lookout. Country Foods produces over 50 per- cent of Belize’s eggs – approx- imately 127,300 cases per year (360 eggs per case) – from 85 different farmers.