In the Rostov region started producing complex duck meat

In the Rostov region in test mode by "Evrodon" launched industrial complex for the production of duck meat.

Company has no parallel in the history of Russian and Soviet poultry. Its design capacity at the first stage will be 26 thousand tons of duck meat in a year. In the scope of the project - a gradual increase in production capacity to 40,000 tonnes of live weight per year.

Full commissioning of all the objects of the complex is scheduled for early 2015, This will allow the consumer market chilled meat ducks and implement the replacement of imported frozen goods with domestic products of higher quality.

construction project implemented by agro-industrial cluster "Donstar" since June 2011. The total cost of the complex - 7 billion rubles.

This will allow the Russians to diversify the meat diet, which currently consists, according to the British edition of The Economist, Chicken - 22.1 kg of pork - 18 kg of beef - 17.6 kg, slightly more than a kilogram accounted for ovine, and other types of meat, including duck and turkey present.  

duck meat in the Russian menu is very modest. Today in Russia consume only 70,000 tons of duck meat in a year - as imported and poultry grown in farms. This is 2% of the total annual production of poultry meat.

Sources:
MSHRF
Irk.ru