A foreign investor intends to build in Zabaykalsky Krai farm for the maintenance of 3 to 5 thousand species of musk deer. This will allow him to export the musk of the animal that is used extensively in Eastern medicine, announced on Monday the correspondent of TASS in the regional Ministry of foreign economic relations and tourism.

"For the first Kabarole farm allocated 17 hectares in the Chita region, the farm is built, prepared all the conditions for the animals, we are working on getting permission for semi-free content musk deer. To date, invested 18 million rubles (2 million yuan) investment," the Ministry said.

The name of the company, the investor, the Ministry announced. However, it noted that in the future, the entrepreneur plans to build in the Chita and Krasnochikoyskoe districts in Zabaykalsky Krai to 15 such farms. They will contain 3 - 5 thousand species of musk deer. To serve each farm will be ten workers. The total cost of the project is 540 million rubles (60 million yuan).

Musk deer is a small cloven-hoofed animal openevidence. The Latin name for musk deer, "moschus moschiferus", translated as "bringer of musk." This is due to the fact that the belly of the male musk deer musk gland is located, which contains 10 to 20 grams of natural musk - the most expensive product of animal origin.

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