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.
The Roshen confectionary corporation (Kyiv) plans to build a dairy farm on the territory of Letychiv-Agro LLC (Khmelnytsky region) in 2021.
“Now we have a dairy herd of a little more than 1,000 heads. The average milking is 32 tonnes of milk per day. With the construction of the second farm, we will have 1,500 heads of the dairy herd, and the total livestock will be 3,000 head,” Roshen Corporation President Viacheslav Moskalevsky told reporters in Kyiv on Tuesday.
According to him, in 2020, it is planned to develop a project for the future dairy farm, in 2021 to begin construction.
As reported, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed Moskalevsky to acquire Letychiv-Agro LLC through PJSC closed non-diversified venture corporate investment fund Konditerinvest (Kyiv).
This acquisition will enable the corporation to increase its cattle livestock capacity.
The land bank of Letychiv-Agro is 4,000 hectares.
Roshen Corporation, one of the largest confectionery manufacturers in Ukraine, includes Kyiv, Kremenchuk (Poltava region) confectionery factories, two production sites in Vinnytsia region, Dairy Plant Bershadmoloko (Vinnytsia region), two production sites in Lipetsk region (Russia), confectionary facilities in Klaipeda (Lithuania), and Bonbonetti Choco factory (Hungary).
