Russia: Cherkizovo launches US$685 million poultry project

Russia's biggest meat producer Cherkizovo said it had started building a huge poultry complex worth US$685 million (UK£411.268 million) in Yelets in the central Russian Lipetsk region. The complex will have broiler sites with 10 million poultry places, parent stock and reproduction flock sites for 900,000 heads and slaughtering and processing facilities, Cherkizovo said in a statement.

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It will also include facilities to produce 512,000 tonnes of poultry feed per year and to store up to 50,000 tonnes of frozen products. The complex is expected to be built in 2013 and to reach full capacity by 2015. Of the total investment 80 percent were provided by Gazprombank, a former banking unit of Russian energy giant Gazprom, as a 10-year loan, Cherkizovo said. Read more ...

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