At the end of the week, production will commence at the first farm built as part of Agrokor’s pig farming development program in cooperation, specifically at the family farm of Marijan Janković in Molvama.
At the end of the week, it is planned to fill the facility with piglets from domestic breeding from the new Belje farm in Mali Knežev, which opened at the beginning of this year, Agrokor announces. Marijan Jaković signed a business cooperation agreement and a technical consulting agreement for the construction of the farm with Belje kooperacija, a subsidiary of the Agrokor group, and the construction of the facility itself began in April. These agreements define a business relationship lasting at least 12 years with the aim of building a new pig farm for fattening, valued at 5.5 million kuna.
The facility is designed for 1,500 fatteners weighing up to 110 kilograms in one production cycle, or for an annual production of 4,500 fatteners, Agrokor states. They emphasize that the farm in Molvama is the first development project based on which the construction of all other pig fattening farms will be standardized, and it has been built according to ecological standards and animal welfare protection standards applicable in the EU.
Agrokor reminds that they began implementing the pig farming development program in cooperation in early 2006 in accordance with the Operational Program for the Development of Pig Production in Croatia. The financing of the entire project has been secured through funds from HBOR. Approximately 200 interested farmers and companies have applied for Agrokor’s pig farming development project so far, and 44 candidates have met all project requirements. A location permit has already been requested for the first 24 cooperants, while possibilities are being explored for the others, and the necessary documentation and approvals are being prepared, they say at Agrokor. (Hina)
