Miratorg invests 27.5 billion rubles in lamb production.

 Agroholding Miratorg is launching a project for the industrial production of lamb in RUSSIA, company president Viktor Linnik told reporters. According to him, the project will become the largest lamb production in Russia: Miratorg plans to build 12 farms for 1.3 million heads per year, or 71.2 thousand tons of MEAT in live weight. Investments in the project will amount to more than 27.5 billion rubles, it will be implemented within four to five years.

The pilot farm - a breeding reproducer - is located in Kursk: in February of this year, 17 thousand sheep from Australia were brought to it. The first products will be sold in January-February, Linnik expects. The opening of two more farms is planned in the Tula region: an investment agreement on the creation of sheep breeding complexes was signed at the Golden Autumn exhibition, investments will amount to about 6 billion rubles. Sites for the remaining nine farms have not yet been determined.

The project provides for deep processing of products at a high-tech slaughterhouse. The planned output of finished products is 35 thousand tons of lamb per year, "about half will be exported," Linnik emphasized.

Miratorg is included by the government in the list of backbone enterprises in Russia. The agricultural holding is the largest pork producer in the country with a market share of 10.9% in 2017, the Cherkizovo Group refers in its reporting to the data of the National Union of Pig Breeders. Miratorg itself reports that last year it produced 415 thousand tons of pork in live weight, 82 thousand tons of beef, 114 thousand tons of poultry meat.

Financial indicators are not disclosed. The Miratorg statements only indicate that in 2017, IFRS revenue increased by 4.5%, to 112.9 billion rubles.

The owners of the holding are brothers Alexander and Viktor Linnik. The fortune of each FORBES magazine in its latest ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia" estimates $ 600 million (168th and 169th places in the ranking).