A’spik Group (Khmelnytsky region), a regional sugar producer, plans to expand dairy farming and increase milk production in 2020 by launching the third dairy farm of Agro Eco Milk LLC with 600 animals in the village of Irshiki (Khmelnytsky region).
The group said on Facebook that two farms of Volovikov agricultural enterprise LLC (Rivne region) and Kuzmintsy agricultural enterprise (Khmelnytsky region) produced 15,300 tonnes of milk last year.
“The average milk yield at the first enterprise last year was 35 tonnes per day, at the second 7 tonnes. The dairy cattle stock at the farms totals 1,600 and 270 cows, respectively,” A’spik Group noted.
It said that now 80% is extra-grade milk, another 10% is milk of the highest and first categories.
The core business of A’spik Group is sugar production, growing sugar beets, grain and oilseeds. According to the group, two of its plants produce about 5% of the total sugar volume in Ukraine.
A’spik Group in 2019 increased sugar production by 20% compared to 2018, to 72,000 tonnes. Of the total production, 46,000 tonnes of sugar was produced at Starokostiantynivsky sugar plant, and 26,400 tonnes at Shepetivka sugar factory.
