The governor of the Volgograd region visited one of the largest vegetable drying complexes in Russia, the administration of the Volgograd region and the newspaper Arguments and Facts. Volgograd".
The investment project worth 700 million rubles was implemented by APK Gorodischensky LLC.
In addition to its own funds, the enterprise was able to use a preferential loan received from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The region helped the company to find a site. Companies also compensate for the costs of building infrastructure that was built from scratch.
The company expects to occupy 25% of the Russian market immediately after the launch. The next stage, according to the head of the region Andrey Bocharov, is to increase production volumes in order to increase the presence on the market to 50-75%.
The new agricultural complex, in addition to the main production building, includes two vegetable stores with a capacity of four thousand tons and a weighing station. The first batch of products from carrots, onions and beets purchased from local farmers has already been produced.
This year, the company plans to reach the volume of four thousand tons of products.
Since 2014, more than 1 investment projects worth about 100 billion rubles have been implemented in the agro-industrial complex of the region. Vegetable processing capacities have grown from 50 to 200 tons per year in eight years.