BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 16
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan’s Makinskaya Poultry Farm LLP has launched the second stage of production for growing broilers with the participation of Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (DBK), Trend reports citing DBK.
The second stage will increase production volumes and reduce the share of poultry meat imports to 32.6 percent from the current 50.4 percent. The plant was built within the framework of the State Program for Industrial and Innovative Development of Kazakhstan.
The second stage assumes an increase in production capacity from 25,000 to 56,000 tons of meat per year. The poultry farm added four broiler plots with 12 poultry houses each, and also equipped with an incubator, fodder, poultry processing plant, meat, and bone meal.
The total sales of the Makinsk poultry farm in 2021 will amount to more than 85,000 tons of chicken meat products, which is 22 percent of the total poultry meat consumption volume in Kazakhstan.
First stage investments amounted to 33.5 billion tenge ($79.7 million), where DBK's participation was 16 billion tenge ($38.09 million). The second stage cost 14.6 billion tenge ($34.7 million), 11.2 billion tenge ($266.6 million) of which were borrowed from DBK.
The project is important to replace poultry meat imports and to contribute to the development of the food industry in Kazakhstan.
Makinsk poultry farm uses technologically advanced equipment from international manufacturers and meets European standards. Moreover, the product meets the requirements for a humane attitude towards live poultry and the Halal recommendation standards.
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