August 8, 2007

Hypor to export its pigs to Russia

Hypor B.V, a Hendrix Genetics company and "Znamensky Selekcionno-Gibridny Center" LLC, an Exima company, have struck a deal to cooperate with pig breeding activities in Russia.

"Exima" JSC, which owns the Mikoyan meat processing plant, has chosen Hypor as the supplier of purebred animals to produce (Great)Grand Parent animals in Russia and to produce Parent Stock for commercial pig farms.

The projects will take place in Orlovskaya Oblast and will be carried out by Exima's affiliated company "Znamenskiy Selection Hybrid Centre". Three nucleus farms with a capacity of more than 3.000 sows will be filled with purebred animals from the Hypor nucleus farms in Saskatchewan, Canada in the second half of 2007.

Thijs Hendrix, the President of Hendrix Genetics sees Exima JSC as an excellent partner for the distribution of Hypor genetics across Russia. Hypor is one of the world's leading suppliers of swine genetics with its main headquarters in Ontario, Canada as well as breeding centres in North America, Europe and Asia.

The signing of a long term agreement opens new possibilities for the development of domestic pig breeding and production of Russia's own Parent Stock using the most modern breeding techniques and data collection.