The Sitno agricultural holding will build a first-order breeding facility for 3.5 billion rubles

The company also plans to invest 620 million rubles. in the construction of a selection and seed-growing center with a capacity of 15 thousand tons intended for processing and storing seeds. The project is planned to be implemented in the Agapovsky district this year. According to Zhuravsky, the development of our own breeding base to replace imports in crop production is an important component of the company’s strategy. Therefore, it was decided to invest in the creation of a selection and seed production center, where the agricultural holding plans to obtain high-quality varieties adapted to the soil and climatic characteristics of the regions.

The company's plans to build a first-order breeder were reported last year. Then TASS wrote that this would be a breeding facility for the reproduction of the new domestic cross of chickens “Smena-9”. At that time, production capacity was estimated at 6 million eggs, the cost of the project was 1.26 billion rubles. In November, Ura.ru reported that within the framework of the project it is planned to build a hatchery for 12 million eggs per year, as well as more than two dozen poultry houses for raising maternal and paternal lines and the ancestral flock of birds.

General DIRECTOR of the Russian Poultry Union Galina Bobyleva says that this loudspeaker is extremely necessary for the industry. “We hope to have it built next year. The reproducer will work with our Smena selection and genetic center,” she commented. According to her, in RUSSIA there has long been no strong dependence on imported hatching eggs thanks to its own breeding farms with first-order reproducers.

The creation of first-order reproducers is a logical and natural step towards strengthening Russia’s own breeding base, since the existing ancestral herds in the country are equipped with imported crosses, notes Albert Davleev, president of Agrifood Strategies. “The announced and ongoing projects in this direction in the central part of Russia will not be able to meet the needs of domestic broiler producers in the next three to five years, and the creation of such a reproducer in the eastern part of the country will allow us to localize this segment,” he said.

However, the success and payback of such projects, according to Davleev, will depend mainly on the production indicators of scalable parent herds of the new domestic cross. They should be stable and uniformly high compared to foreign crosses-competitors Ross and Cobb. And this will manifest itself with the massive use of the main product - sets of parent flocks - at a significant number of different sites of broiler producers, the expert points out. “However, possible force majeure events—for example, the inability to obtain genetic material from Western suppliers for any reason—could make such projects the only source of breeding material for domestic poultry farmers,” he adds.

Sitno is the largest food manufacturer in the Urals. The company is engaged in pig breeding, sheep breeding, crop production, produces FLOUR products, confectionery and dairy products , semi-finished products, sausages . The agricultural holding also includes two poultry farming complexes, which combine egg and broiler production, sites for raising parent flocks, replacement young stock, poultry slaughter and processing, and a hatchery for hatching chickens.