Israel was offered to raise turkeys in Russia

06.04.2010 — News

The Sverdlovsk Oblast authorities offered Israeli businessmen to take part in the turkey meat production. The project worth about 24 million Euro has been presented at the Russian-Israeli business forum.

The regional government informed RusBusinessNews that the project initiator - "The Urals Farmstead" Agroindustrial Complex Ltd. - has obtained land plots for the construction of several poultry-houses, slaughterhouse and processing workshop, and incubation facility. A granulated feed production line has been purchased from Amandus Kuhl (Germany). Up until now turkey meat has not been produced on industrial scale in the Sverdlovsk Oblast.

In 2009 Russia imported 53 thousand tons of turkey meat. Main supplier is France (44%). 17% of the total was supplied by Belgium, 16% - USA, 14.5% - Brazil.