At the poultry farm №1 JSC "Kursk agricultural holding" (GK "White Bird"), a fire killed more than 500 thousand chickens, according to the portal Abireg.ru citing a source in the company.

It is assumed that the cause of the fire was a short circuit of wiring. The fire broke out on an area of about 3 thousand square meters and destroyed two buildings of the poultry farm, where at that time there were about 520 thousand chickens. The fire was extinguished within two hours.

The preliminary damage is estimated at 460 million. "There now all burned to the ground. The damage can be assessed while only approximately. Perhaps the digit is less than", - said at the poultry farm, without specifying whether the property is insured.

Recall that some time ago on the site of Kursk was Holding was a mass mortality of birds due to the shutdown of the ventilation system on one of the objects of the company. Then the company lost more than 600 thousand chickens.

This spring, the Kursk arbitration was considered a claim for recognition of poultry bankrupt initiated Belgorod trading company LLC "Pronostico-Belgorod". The company stated that the company has owed her 730 thousand for the delivery of food additives. But soon after Kursk the company has repaid the debt, and production was discontinued.

JSC "Kursk agricultural holding is a vertically integrated poultry holding in Horsesense district of the Kursk region with a capacity of 100 thousand tons of poultry meat in live weight per year. Included in the group of companies "White bird". Total investments in production facilities of JSC amounted to 11.7 billion rubles According to "SPARK-Interfax", the revenues of the company in 2013 to $ 2.7 billion, net loss of 102 million.