KYIV. Dec 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kyschentsi LLC (Cherkasy region) would increase cattle numbers from 1,200 to 3,500 heads in two or three years, the director and founder of the company, Kees Huizinga has said at the Agrarian Olympus congress in Kyiv.
“Now we are building new premises of the dairy farm. We are finishing construction of a milking space and plan to launch it before New Year. We plan to boost cattle numbers from 1,200 to 3,500 heads in two or three years,” he said.
Now the company breeds Holstein cows and supplies milk to Ternopil dairy plant.
The company does not plan to expand its land bank.
“The bank we have – 16,000 ha – is a lot. People in Ukraine have lost their links with reality: 100,000-200,000 per company is too much. The main thing is to have added value of production, not a pile of land,” Huizinga said.
Along with dairy farms, the company plans to expand production of vegetable. This year Kyschentsi LLC sowed onions, carrots and cabbage on 400 ha.
“Next year the company could increase the fields to 500 ha, depending on water in ponds [vegetables are grown using drop irrigation]. We sell vegetables to supermarkets during the year. We have storage facilities. For example, the onion storage facilities can store 10,000 tonnes,” the director of the company said.
