Turkey egg production will begin in the Voronezh region

The construction of a poultry house for 82 thousand heads of parent flock and six million eggs per year will cost the investor 2.9 billion rubles.

The first stone for the foundation of the future breeding facility, which will allow the creation of a full cycle of turkey breeding in the Voronezh region, was laid in the village of Sychevka, Nizhnedevitsky district. The new enterprise will reduce the import of hatching eggs to RUSSIA, which currently occupies more than half of the market. The second-order reproducer will become the core of an industrial cluster for the production of turkey MEAT in the Voronezh region.

The construction of a poultry house for 82 thousand heads of parent flock and six million eggs per year will cost the investor 2.9 billion rubles. The Don Turkey company will take advantage of a preferential loan from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation; it is being advised by the French division of the Hendrix Genetics holding, one of the world leaders in the breeding of farm animals, headquartered in Holland. They expect to receive the first marketable egg in October 2025, and reach design capacity in March 2026. The enterprise will create more than 100 jobs with an average salary of 62 thousand rubles.

Alexander Ilyin, General DIRECTOR of Plemreproductor Donskaya Turkey LLC, explained that the livestock from the incubator will be transferred to the replacement young stock site for 200 days, and then to the parent flock site, where the actual eggs are obtained.

Many poultry farms have already shown interest in the products of the enterprise under construction. Heads of agricultural companies from the Belgorod region, Bashkortostan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Belarus came to lay the stone.

Previously, Don Turkey built an incubator for 5.1 million eggs per year in the Voronezh region. Now turkey poults from the Kashira region are sold to Belarus and neighboring countries. increase volumes and expand the geography of exports. In the future, the new breeding facility will allow ancestral turkey flocks to be localized in the Russian Federation and thereby reduce dependence on the import of hatching eggs. In 2020, the share of foreign eggs in this segment was 77 percent, in 2023 - 55

. Executive Director of the National Association of Turkey Producers Anatoly Velmatov, the domestic turkey meat market continues to grow, and there is unsatisfied demand. At the same time, Russian turkey meat is also exported - for example, to CHINA .

“The implementation of the project is important not only for the Voronezh region, but also for the whole of Russia: the enterprise will replace imported products,” emphasized Deputy Chairman of the regional government Viktor Logvinov. “We are grateful to the company that has been working in the industry since 2019, as well as to the Ministry of Agriculture and Sberbank, which supported the project. We also help him at the regional government level. The Expert Council included this large-scale investment project in the list for the provision of preferences; The company was leased land owned by the region.

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In 2023, 422 thousand tons of turkey in slaughter weight were grown in Russia. According to the forecast, in 2024 production volume will increase to 435-440 thousand tons, that is, by four to five percent. The supply of domestic commercial turkey hatching eggs, which is currently about 45 percent, continues to grow due to investment projects to create second-order breeding breeders. The turkey farming development strategy until 2030 is aimed at increasing production and EXPORT volumes by at least 1.5 times.