TH Group inaugurated a high-producing dairy farm in Volokolamsk district, Russia’s Moscow Oblast, on January 31 (Photo: tienphong.vn) Moscow (VNA) – Vietnamese dairy maker TH Groupinaugurated a high-producing dairy farm in Volokolamsk district, Russia’sMoscow Oblast, on January 31.
The farm is the first of its kind for TH Groupand part of a high-tech dairy farming and processing complex and food projects,worth 2.7 billion USD in total, in Russia.
It received the first 1,100 high-producing HolsteinFriesian cows, imported from the US, on January 3. Milk productivity isexpected at 11 – 12 tonnes per cow every 305 days, helping the farm produce 30tonnes of milk a day.
Thai Huong, founder of TH Group, said herbusiness will continue building farms and importing cattle to finish phase I ofthe project this May.
With total investment of 500 million USD, theproject is set to cover more than 50,000ha and farm 45,000 cows. When fullyoperational, it will produce more than 234,000 tonnes of milk per year.
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Aside from the dairy farm project in Moscow, THGroup is also building a dairy farm in Kaluga Oblast and plans to unveil thefacility late in the first quarter of 2018.
The firm also signed agreements on investing inTyumen Oblast and the Republic of Bashkortostan and is preparing to carry outanother dairy project in the Russian Far East.
According to Russia’s National Dairy ProducersUnion, there were 8.25 million dairy cows in Russia in 2016, producing 30.7million tonnes of fresh milk. However, the country had to import about 7.2 milliontonnes of milk and is still facing a shortage of milk supply.-VNA
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