G. Kostyukov, V. Patenko, P. Chernov at the celebration in Beriozovka
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On August 6 in the settlement Beryozovka of Kondopoga region there passed the ceremony laying the first stone of the new pig-breeding farm in which up 12 thousand pigs will be grown annually. The complex is onstructed within the scope of realization of the Agro-Industrial Complex Development priority national project.
At the ceremony of laying the foundation stone Prime Minister of the Government of Karelia Pavel Chernov has noted, that the cattle-breeding complex this large is constructed in the republic for the first time - when the pig-breeding farm achieves its designed capacity, the livestock of pigs in Karelia will almost be double. His words were confirmed by the Minister of Agriculture, Fish Imdustry and Ecology Vanda Patenko: beginning of construction in Beryozovka alongside with opening cattle-breeding complexes in Megrega and Ilyinsky and commissioning a new calf house in Yanishpole is one of the four events significant for agriculture of the republic this year.
V.Patenko speaks at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone in the pig breeding farm
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Construction of the pig-breeding farm in Beryozovka can exemplify cooperation of business and authority - in such words speech of the director general of AKS-Holding, Ltd., Georgy Kostyukov started. AKS-Holding is the initiator of creation of a large pig-breeding enterprise, it has been working fruitfully in Karelia for a long time, gained experience of restoration and reconstruction of such large enterprises, as Karelian Meat-Packing Plant, Inc., Korm, Inc., (the Petrozavodsk integrated poultry farm).
The foundation stone
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First pigs will appear in Beryozovka in October or November the next year. "New settlers" will live in brick buildings made according to Danish technology. In particular, it provides gathering manure in special lagoons from which it will be taken out to arable fields. However, today there is an idea to use manure as raw material for biogas installations which would generate electric power for heating and illumination of industrial premises of the farm. To serve the huge 6-hectare complex there will 22 people. According to Georgy Kostyukov, tax deductions of the enterprise will make no less than 45 million roubles.
Realization of the project in Kondopoga region will be completed by Kondopoga Pig Complex Joint-Stock Company. General investment expenses for construction of the complex which is planned to be finished in 2011, on the precalculation, will make 230 million roubles. Due to introduction of modern technologies and perfection of production infrastructure it is planned to achieve high profitability and to produce competitive high-quality production. Pork will be delivered for realization to the republican market, and to Karelian Meat-Packing Plant as raw material.
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