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UKRAINIAN BERRY GUILD TO INVEST SOME UAH 30 MLN IN FIRST PHASE OF BERRY FARM IN KYIV REGION

14 August , 2017  

KYIV. Aug 14 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian Berry Guild LLC, a member of the Agrospring 2011 berry cooperative, seeks to launch a first phase of the berry farm in Makariv district of Kyiv region, which construction is to finish by the end of this year.
“The sum of investment in the farm is around UAH 30 million. The core business is sale of sprouts and planting stock of key berries: strawberries, cranberries, blackberries and blueberries,” the owner of the company Vadym Skorokhod told Interfax-Ukraine.
He said that the construction of the farm was started in March 2017.
The company is holding talks with U.S. and European selection companies and receiving a license to sell high-quality beery planting stock of foreign selection.
“Our five-year plan is to expand the fields and build an in-vitro laboratory,” he said.