Agro-industrial complex of the Kursk region in 2011 in 2,5 times increased the volume of production in food processing industry - to 220 billion rubles. This was announced on Tuesday, the Governor of Kursk region Alexander Mikhailov in the village of Linz Zheleznogorsk district, the region's largest grain Elevator with capacity of 150 thousand tons of grain.

"The opening of the Elevator with the simultaneous storage capacity of 150 thousand tons of grain - a socially significant event. Enter the Elevator and in the future, large animal feed factory will continue to provide their own feed cattle-breeding complexes in Kursk region. In recent years, the region has achieved significant results in the agricultural sector, the food processing industry in 2017, the production volume reached 220 billion rubles with the growth by 2.5 times by 2011," - said Mikhailov.

The complex construction of Elevator and feed mill in March 2017 the beginning of the group of companies "Agropromkomplektatsiya". As the Governor noted, the company has to date invested more than 2.1 billion of the announced 3 billion rubles of investments. The project is implemented in the framework of import substitution and food security of the Russian Federation under the state program "Development of agriculture and regulation of markets of agricultural products, raw materials and food for 2013-2020".

On the investment project, in autumn, in the village of Linz will open a feed mill with capacity of 216 thousand tons per year. A new Elevator and feed mill will be the second similar complex in the Kursk region. The first complex with the feed mill with a capacity of 216 thousand tons per year and Elevator to 102 thousand tons of grain running in Konyshevsky district.

The group of companies "Agropromkomplektatsiya" specializiruetsya of pig breeding and dairy farming, processing of products and their implementation. In the Central Federal district consists of 17 pig farms in the Kursk and Tver regions.