LLC "Razvitie" from Yegorievsk is engaged in the reconstruction of two buildings of a potato storage and a potato processing workshop, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region assisted the enterprise in obtaining preferential investment loans, reports department press service.
“Investments in this project will amount to about 300 million rubles, of which 30% is the company's own funds. If all work is completed on time, the renovated buildings will be commissioned in the first quarter of 2023. According to the company's forecasts, this year's potato harvest will be about 3 tons. For comparison, 800 tons were harvested last year,” said Georgy Filimonov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region.
The storage capacity will be 4,4 thousand tons.
Since 2015, Razvitie LLC has been growing grain and industrial crops, and since 2020 also potatoes. The enterprise owns 1 hectares of agricultural land and another 147,5 hectares for lease, 682,5 m4 of industrial premises and a greenhouse complex with an area of 574 m2.
In 2021, the company harvested a good grain crop - 805 tons of third-class food wheat and 813 tons of first-class food rye. The company's revenue at the same time amounted to 74 rubles.