Agriculture
- 27.5 thousand people are working in the branch
- RUB 583.3 bln. – volume of foodstuffs sale on the territory of the Region
- 2.4% -share in GRP
Agricultural producers of the Region specialize mainly in production of milk, meat, eggs, potatoes, vegetables and feed grains. As of 2020 production of potatoes attributes to more than 105% of the actual internal consumption, of eggs - 102%, of milk and dairy products - about 70%, of meat - almost 58%, of vegetables - about 44%. In 2020, the agricultural enterprises earned a net profit of about RUB 4 bln.
A unique genomic selection center for poultry breeding operates in the Sverdlovsk region, created jointly with the company “ISA Hendrix Genetics”, one of the world leaders in this area. In the field of cattle breeding the Region has a whole network of the pedigree and selection companies, thus fully covering the demand in the young animals. Currently, creation of the selection and seed production center “Uralsky Katrofel” is in progress, since potato is the type of product which is significant for the regional infrastructure
Among the promising areas for investment one can name the following: creation of facilities for storing and processing of the harvested vegetables, production of bioadditives (vitamins) based on the pine needles for the compound feed, production of chicken eggs to be used for production of vaccines.
There are more than 20 institutions in the Region which are engaged in training of the specialists in the area of agriculture , particularly, 3 training facilities of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 institutions of higher education and 16 institutions of specialized secondary education.
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Development of Velvet Horns Farm
The farm is located in a picturesque place with clean air right on the shore of Lake Sysertskoye in the south of Sverdlovsk region.
Construction of a dairy farm for 1800 forage-fed cows. Udarnik OOO
Creation of a modern farm on the basis of the existing dairy farm (Zemlya Sazhinskaya OOO).
Construction of a commercial dairy farm for 1200 cows for Kilachevsky SPK
Creation of a modern high-tech farm for milk production in the village of Pervomayskaya, Irbitsky District, Sverdlovsk region.
Creation of Baltym Agroindustrial Cluster
Construction of a modern high-tech agro-industrial cluster, consisting of several local projects.
Poultry Farm Irbitskaya, LLC
Poultry Farm Irbitskaya, LLC has completed the modernization of its buildings and equipment for keeping laying hens, and automation of finished product collection and transportation.
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