Project Description
Belgrankorm Holding Ltd. (BGK or the company), one of the leading agro-industrial meat producers in Russia, has requested IFC’s assistance in financing its corporate-wide expansion aimed at satisfying rapidly growing domestic demand via doubling production of meat, grain and milk by 2010.
The project involves:
- expansion of poultry breeder, broiler farms and hatcheries;
- start up of a new poultry production complex in Northern Russia;
- expansion of growing pig farms;
- construction of a pork slaughter house and processing plant;
- expansion of dairy farms;
- expansion of crop land for grain growing;
- acquisition of agricultural machinery and equipment;
- expansion of feed mill capacity, and
- working capital increase and refinancing of the existing debt.