AgriVolga Will Invest More Than 3 Billion Rubles In The Construction Of A Sourdough Plant

AgriVolga Holding is investing greater than 3 billion rubles within the building of a biofactory that may produce sourdough and concentrates for the manufacturing of cheese and sour-milk merchandise.

Settlement was signed at SPIEF-2022 by Appearing Governor of Yaroslavl area Mikhail Evrayev and Chairman of the Board of Administrators of holding “Agri-Volga” Sergey Bachin.

In accordance with the corporate’s press launch, the sourdough will likely be used on the Uglichsky cheese and dairy plant, on whose territory the development of the manufacturing unit will start.

Merchandise of Uglichskaya Biofactory will likely be used at AgriVolga plant within the manufacturing of sour-milk merchandise of natural model “Ugleche Polye”. The manufacturing unit will present the finances as much as 140 million rubles in taxes per 12 months, will present greater than 150 new jobs. Presently, the design work is underway. The manufacturing unit will likely be put into operation in 3 years.

“The settlement signed at present solves quite a lot of essential issues. Amongst them – strengthening of meals security of our nation, improvement of processing business in our area, assist for small and medium enterprise, specializing in meals processing and gastrotourism, in addition to the creation of recent jobs, “- stated the Appearing Governor of the Yaroslavl area Mikhail Evraev “We have now a critical potential and may use our expertise to revive our personal traditions and displace international producers of sourdough. I’m positive that the Uglich biofactory will totally display these capabilities.

The anticipated capability is 160 tons of bacterial concentrates per 12 months, which is able to account for greater than 25% of the RF consumption market,” stated Sergey Bachin, Chairman of the AgriVolga Agricultural Holding Board of Administrators.

“In shut cooperation with the All-Russian Analysis Institute of Butter and Cheese Making (VNIIMS) and the Federal State Scientific Establishment “Experimental Biofabrika” we carried out distinctive analysis and experimental developments to create a contemporary world-class biofabrika,” he pressured.

As famous within the press launch, Russian producers have not too long ago been pressured to purchase starter merchandise overseas. By the top of 2021 the whole quantity of Russian market of starters for the dairy business is estimated at 750 tons price about 30 billion rubles, and solely 8% of the necessity for bacterial starter is roofed by home manufacturing. Excessive dependence on imported sourdough producers in Russia has led to the dangers of manufacturing failures within the new realities.