MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti) – Idavang, a Danish commercial pig breeding company, will build a full-cycle pig breeding complex with 3,500 sows in the Leningrad Region by 2017, a spokesperson for the regional government press service said.
The Idavang investment project was rolled out at the Golden Autumn-2015 agribusiness exhibition in Moscow.
“The new complex, with a capacity of 100,000 pigs per year, will be built in 2017 in the village of Khrepelka, the Luga District of the Leningrad Region. The construction of the pig farm of the Idavang Luga company, which is part of Idavang Group, is an important regional agribusiness project,” he said.
The project investment volume will be 3.8 billion rubles, including 2.7 billion in loans and 1.1 billion of the company’s own funds.
According to Idavang Luga General Director Tatyana Sharygina, Danish pigs will be bred at the complex: a hybrid of Landrace, Duroc and Yorkshire swine.
“Our company is ready to go ahead with the construction project in 2016. We have acquired a tract of land where we have grown almost 10 million metric tons of grain and have provided a plot for the construction. The project will be recouped in 10 years and it will be up and running in two years. It should reach full capacity by 2018. There are already two such farms in Russia,” she said.
The complex will include 24 pig breeding facilities, a granary and an innovative manure removal and organic fertilizer production system. In addition to breeding pigs for slaughterhouses and meat processing plants in the region, the complex will have its own fodder facility, growing crops with organic fertilizer on 3,500 hectares of land.
The company plans to create another two pig breeding farms in the Northwestern Federal District.
“The new pig breeding complex will help make the domestic market less dependent on imported pork products. The new facility will provide good quality pork to the population not only of the Leningrad Region but also in other parts of Russia,” said Sergei Yakhnyuk, deputy governor and head of the agribusiness and fishing industry committee.
