Press service of ABH Miratorg

On June 16, 2023, the press service announced that at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, ABH Miratorg and the Bryansk Region signed an agreement providing for investments in the amount of 692 million rubles in the creation of a selection and seed center for the creation of potato varieties and the production of original and elite potato seeds in Bryansk region with a capacity of 11.5 thousand tons per year.

The development of our own breeding base for import substitution in crop and vegetable growing is an important component of the agroholding's strategy.

In order to provide crop production with high-quality seeds of its own production, the company invests in the creation of breeding and seed production centers, where it receives varieties adapted to the soil and climatic features of the Russian regions:
      in 2020, the first breeding and seed-growing center was launched with a cleaning capacity of 5 thousand tons of seeds of perennial grasses and grass mixtures per year in the Oryol region,
      and this year, a center for grain and leguminous crops will start operating in the Kursk region with a capacity of 27.4 thousand tons of seeds per year.

The project of a breeding and seed-growing center in the Bryansk region will become part of an interregional full-cycle enterprise for the production of seed potatoes of high reproductions.

For its implementation, a production and warehouse complex with a sorting area and warehouse sheds, laboratories with a set of equipment for assessing the quality of varieties (hybrids) will be created, and a fleet of specialized equipment will be purchased.

The seed material of super-super elite seed reproduction will be supplied from the Kaliningrad region to the Bryansk region for further planting of seeds for the production of seed potatoes of the super elite and elite class.

To improve quality and marketability, as well as to minimize the risks of drought, the cultivation of elite and super elite class seeds will be carried out on the company's irrigated fields.

“The new site will become a base for obtaining elite seeds for commercial potato production and subsequent processing at the Grand Fries joint venture in the Oryol region, which will produce french fries and potato pancakes for Vkusno — i Tochka restaurants, as well as for other HoReCa segments.

Investments in the domestic raw material base will help accelerate the growth rate of high-quality potato production in accordance with the high quality requirements of raw materials from our partners and cover the internal needs of the fast food market in domestic raw materials,” said Victor Linnik, President of ABH Miratorg.