KYIV. Nov 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Dan-Farm Ukraine LLC seeks to launch a pig farm with 25,000 pigs in Korosten district of Zhytomyr region.
“We started building it [the pig farm] in 2014. It is being finished. We plan to launch it early next year,” First Deputy Director General Vadym Shestakov told reporters at the Agricultural Olympus 2016 international congress in Kyiv on Tuesday.
He said that the company has a sow farm with 3,000 sows in Khalcha. The farm can produce up to 100,000 pigs a year.
Some EUR 10 million has been invested in the pig farm in Zhytomyr region. The total cost of the project is EUR 12 million.
“The project has five phases. Now we are launching two pig farms, a feed processing room and two administrative buildings,” he said.
The company does not plan to slaughter pigs. This will be discussed after boosting the number of pigs and the launch of new pig farms.
Dan-Farm Ukraine is not involved in exports due to the complicated epizootic situation in Ukraine due to African swine fever (ASF).
According to the unified register of companies, the owners of the company are Dutch companies Berry Farm ApS and Ukraine-Agro A/S.
