TOMSK, Mar 9 – RIA Tomsk. One of the enterprises of
Sibagro company (one of the largest pork producers in Russia with a management
company in Tomsk) – a pig farm in the Urals – has begun to supply its products
to Hong Kong, the first batch of 27 tonnes of by-products has been sent, the
company's press service reported on Tuesday.
"One of the enterprises of the Sibagro company, a
pig farm in the Urals, has begun to supply its products to Hong Kong
<...> The first consignment of exports from the pig farm to Hong Kong
amounted to 27 tons of offal. In the future, deliveries are planned to be made
monthly," – says the message.
According to the press service, the company began to
develop its export direction in 2016, establishing cooperation with the Republic
of Belarus, in 2017 – with Mongolia, in 2019 – with Vietnam. In 2021, the list
of export deliveries has expanded.
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"Our product is in demand in eastern countries,
which is confirmed by the company's long-term cooperation with Mongolia and
Vietnam: our partners are satisfied with both the quality and prices. Of
course, there are some regulatory formalities that accompany export contracts.
So, we received permission to export products to Hong Kong in May 2020, but we
were able to send the products only now," – the head of the export sales
department Georgy Cholokian is quoted in the message.
According to Sibagro's website, today the holding
consists of 11 manufacturing enterprises. These are seven pig breeding
complexes - in the Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen regions, in
the Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Buryatia; three meat-packing plants in
Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg and the Tomskaya poultry farm.
As the chairman of the board of Sibagro Andrey
Tyutyushev reported earlier in an interview with RIA Tomsk, the company
increased the export of pork by five times over the year.