February 18, 2014

Russia's Miratorg's pushes ahead with cattle and poultry production in 2014

Russia's leading meat producer, ABH Miratorg is well on track in its beef and chicken production plans as part of its business diversification move.

The largest project in Europe on the vertically-integrated production of high-quality beef is on schedule. As at the end of 2013, the project operator Bryansk Meat Company formed a breeding stock amounting to 110,000 heads of Aberdeen Angus cattle breed, with total livestock population amounting to 155,000 heads.

In 2013, the company increased its farms in the region to 33 and put more than 200,000 hectares of land into agricultural operation throughout the project implementation period.

Moving forward, Miratorg plans to move into full production including intensive fattening, slaughtering and meat processing of cattle within 2014. In the first quarter, the company is launching Russia's first feedlot capable of handling 45,000 heads, and puts into operation a high-tech slaughtering and deep processing plant with a capacity of 400,000 heads per year in the next half of the year.

The company also continues to implement its vertically-integrated broiler chicken production in the Bryansk region, with total poultry population exceeding 490,000 birds.  Four rearing zones and three parent stock farms out of 12 poultry farms under the project were put into operation. The company finished the installation of the equipment and started commissioning two broiler chicken farms out of seven under the project.

Further, Miratorg is completing the construction of a state-of-the-art meat processing plant with a capacity of 12,000 birds per hour and a hatchery for 75 million eggs per year in the Vygonichsky district of the Bryansk region. The sites are planned to be launched in the 1st quarter of 2014.

The planned production capacity of the project is 100,000 tonnes of poultry meat per year, it is planned to increase poultry breeding population up to more than 850,000 birds and to produce 30 million broiler-chicken in 2014.