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On Topic About Kuban AgroHolding Kuban AgroHolding (www.ahkuban.ru) is one of the largest agribusinesses in southern Russia and part of Russia’s largest industrial group Basic Element. Its activity includes cattle breeding, crop farming, sugar refinery, seed processing, storage as well as seed production. Kuban AgroHolding comprises 10 dairy farms, pig breeding complex, grain elevators, seed plants, Svoboda sugar factory and Voskhod stud farm, one of Russia’s best horse breeding farms. Kuban AgroHolding boasts 86,000 hectares of land bank, 4,500 people are employed by Kuban AgroHolding. The company’s revenue totaled USD 210 million, net profit increased by 14% to USD 23 million in 2013.
New slaughterhouse in Krasnodar region in southern Russia
Russia’s Kuban Agroholding launches slaughterhouse, hog farm Kuban Agroholding, one of Russia’s largest agribusinesses and part of Basic Element industrial group, launched an 8,400-ton slaughterhouse and a 50,000 head hog farm in Krasnodar region. Over 2.6 billion rubles ($ 40 million) was invested to the projects. he launch of the slaughterhouse and the hog farm marks a new stage of the company’s development as Kuban Agro has entered agricultural processing market and began manufacturing high-value products. Both facilities will increase profitability of the company’s animal breeding division and strengthen Kuban Agro’s position in industrial pig farming. The slaughterhouse and the hog farm are already operational and will reach estimated capacity in May 2015. Slaughterhouse’s characteristics The slaughterhouse with an annual capacity of 8,400 tons of meat, focuses on livestock primary processing. This includes slaughtering of cattle, carcass cooling, meat cutting and packaging. A combined slaughter line's capacity is 27 tons of bone-in meat per 8-hour shift (500 hog heads or 120 cattle heads), cooling capacity is 75 tons of chilled meat and 250 tons of frozen meat, cutting and packing capacity is 12.5 tons. Based on the average national meat consumption of 75 kg per person annually, the complex is capable of feeding a small town of 100,000 residents with meat for one year. The slaughterhouse is kitted out with equipment produced by Bertsch-Laska, a leading Austrian supplier for food industry businesses. A technological line for the factory was developed by the leading
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Russian and European project bureaus, Falkenstein and Libner. With its own strong resource base, Kuban’s slaughterhouse has 40% of raw materials supplied by the company’s hog farm. “The food import ban introduced by Russia, creates opportunities for Russian producers who can occupy new markets. However a low investment activity in Russia’s agricultural industry together with dilapidated technology and high credit rates hinder the whole sector.” Hog farm’s characteristics The hog farm and the slaughterhouse make up a single production complex. It was designed to house and maintain 2,200 sows and brawn 50,000 hog heads with an annual capacity of 5,900 tons of live meat weight. The farm operates using the technologies and equipment of the French company I-TEK which have proved successful when applied to similar projects in Russia’s Belgorod and Ryazan regions. As a fully automated facility, the hog farm boasts separated protected areas for fodder delivery, independent lines for supplying mixed fodder to all the units of the facility and its own area for production of mixed pig feed.
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