Course of Innovations and Import Substitution


September, 08

Modern agricultural facilities have appeared within only a year instead of the abandoned commercial dairy farm. Now the elevator designed for storage of 50 thousand tonnes of crops, the plant for clean-up of perennial grasses and crops seeds and the plant for sunflower and soybean processing are located here. The project is invested by Rosselkhozbank.

The complex was opened on September 16 on the basis of Chernyanka department of the crops company. The heads of the regional department of the Agroindustrial Complex, the heads of Chernyanka and Novy Oskol Districts, the representatives of the investing bank and construction organizations that built new facilities took part in the official ceremony.

In the opinion of S. N. Aleynik, the Head of the Belgorod department of the Agroindustrial Complex, this facility may be considered a standard.

"We will use it as a basis and recommend for duplication by other companies in the region," emphasized he. "Our target is annual production of 4 million tonnes of crops in order to meet the needs of the livestock farming in the region."

G. A. Bobritsky, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Prioskolye Group of Companies emphasized the important role of the new industrial complex in providing the holding company's compound feed companies with protein components. And A. G. Titovsky, the Director General of Krasnoyaruzhskaya Zernovaya Kompaniya (Krasnaya Yaruga Crops Company), CJSC reported on the plans and future development prospects: import substitution of first filial hybrids of corn seeds, projects on apple growing and wheat and soybean advanced processing.