Georgian Company to Export 45 Tons of Snail to Italy; 1kg for EUR 3-5

Samegrelo-based NADI Group Company started snail meat exports to Italy in autumn 2019.

As noted by Merab Nadaraia, one of the founders of the company, 45 tons of meat will be exported to Italy this year. The company owns a snail farm on 6 hectares, where 50 tons of snails are produced a year.

One kilogram of snail meat on the European market costs EUR 3-5. NADI Group also plans to manufacture snail mucus for pharmaceutical and makeup products. As part of the United Agro Project, NADI Group opened a modern-standard snail farm in the village of Akhali Khibula, Khobi Municipality in 2019. The beneficiary obtained a preferential agro loan of GEL 1.26 million. The farm produces 50 tons of snail meat a year. In August 2019 the company launched snail neat exports to Italy.