Miratorg, Russia’s leading meat producer, has opened the country’s biggest beef processing complex in the Vygonichsky district of Bryansk Oblast.
The complex has a production capacity of 40,000 tons per year, reports Globalmeatnews.com.
Currently the complex processes about 100 head of cattle per day. Once it reaches full capacity in 2015, it can process up to 1,000 head.
The construction of the complex, which is planned in two phases, is estimated to be at RUB70bn ($1.62bn).
GlobalMeatnews.com quoted Miratorg's Briyansk division CEO Dmitry Moyseenko as saying: "We will gradually fill the planned capacity and, this year alone, we will put more than 5,000t of beef products into the market, while in 2015 we plan to increase to 40,000t, which will replace about 7% of the total beef imports to Russia."
Miratorg has about 250,000 head of cattle, mostly Aberdeen Angus. The company imports them from the US and Australia.
Currently it grows the cattle in 33 farms and plans to add five more farms by this year end.
