Urals Chicks Going to Poultry Farms in China

02.09.2009 — News

THE SVERDLOVSK OBLAST.

The Sverdlovsk Oblast might start exporting chicks to China, Iran, India, and Turkey in three years time. OJSC Poultry Breeding Plant "Sverdlovsky" is planning to invest more than 700 million roubles into the pedigree poultry breeding.

The company informed RusBusinessNews that these plans are the result of growing demand for poultry in Russia and abroad. Russian chicks of pedigree breeds, according to experts, are priced two to three times cheaper than European chicks. The Dutch Hendrix Genetics and the German Lohmann Tierzucht are the main competitors of the Urals company. However, they work predominantly in the Western Europe.

The Poultry Breeding Plant "Sverdlovsky" was established in 1976 as a selection and pedigree breeding of laying hens for poultry farms in the Urals, Siberia, and the Russian Far East. Since 2004 the company has been working in the CIS countries' markets. Today the Urals chicks are shipped to Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. Moreover, preparation work is being carried out for the implementation of a contract with poultry farms in Mongolia.