The Russian-Japanese Company Will Produce up to 6,000 Tons of Vegetables A Year
April 3rd, 2018
The Russian-Japanese Company Will Produce up to 6,000 Tons of Vegetables A Year
The third phase of innovative greenhouses, the resident of the TOP Khabarovsk will be put into operation in 2021
AmurMedia. Up to 6 thousand tons of greenhouse production per year will increase the production capacity of the resident of TOR "Khabarovsk", agro firm JGC Evergreen. As a result of the introduction of the third phase of innovative greenhouses, the Russian-Japanese company will fully satisfy the demand of the inhabitants of the regional center for organic vegetables.
Today cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet pepper, leaf lettuce, radish, green cultures under the brand name "New Day" are sold in four branded points of the agricultural firm and several shops in Khabarovsk.
According to the general director of the enterprise Tomoyuki Igarasi , agro firm has a plan to compete with analogs from China for quality and price. "The close location to the points of sale allows us to deliver fresh vegetables to the store as soon as they are ripe, this is the difference from remote suppliers whose product matures en route.Our mission is to give customers the joy of enjoying a quality product," the general director of the company said.
According to the chief agronomist JGC Evergreen Svetlana Gudkova , the main quality control is carried out in the laboratory, and the goal is to make sure that the vegetables do not contain nitrates and heavy metals.
The townspeople pay tribute to the crops from the Russian-Japanese greenhouses. "A couple of weeks of cucumbers with the" New Day "logo were not on sale," said Olga Koval, a Khabarovsk resident, who was brought from the Amur Region, from Sakhalin, from China . "By the way, many times the sellers have tried to give out the goods for "Evergreen".
The manufacturer has protected its brand from counterfeits: the packaging of vegetables contains a bar code and a label indicating the variety that is damaged at the dissection. Re-paste it is impossible.
A few years ago, local manufacturers provided the need for fresh greenery only by 10%, said Oleg Fomin , head of the food and food resources department of the Khabarovsk administration . Since 2015, a real greenhouse boom has started, and the city's self-sufficiency in vegetables has risen to 60%. The main role in this was played by the company JGC Evergreen, which became the first foreign resident of the territory of the leading socio-economic development "Khabarovsk".
"The main reason for our entry into the TOP is significant tax and other preferences granted to residents, which made it possible to significantly reduce the cost of production and make it more affordable for the consumer," said Tomoyuki Igarasi.
"The anchor investor of the territory - JGC Evergreen Ltd. - is located in the" Industrial Park Avangard ", in addition to which there are three other residents. The site is well located and attracts investors focused on financing projects related to agriculture, "said Denis Tikhonov, General Director of the Corporation for Development of the Far East .
The peculiarity of this site is the complete provision of the necessary engineering infrastructure at the expense of the federal and regional budgets. Water, electricity and gas supply networks are connected to the territory. Also, at the moment, about 5 km of road infrastructure has been repaired, and in July 2019 the repair of the route leading to the boundaries of the land plot of the Avangard site will be completed. The customer of all the works was the administration of Khabarovsk.
Using the advantages of the resident of the TOP, JGC Evergreen (82.2% owned by the Japanese holding company JGC, the rest of the stake is owned by the Russian company Energo-Imuls-Plus) began construction of the greenhouse complex simultaneously with the creation of the Khabarovsk TOR in June 2015. Investments in the first place of the project amounted to 556 million rubles. For five months, greenhouses with an area of 2.5 hectares with a capacity of up to 400 tons of vegetables per year were built and put into operation.
"This is the first agricultural project for us in Russia, we believe that the experience is successful, and we will continue the development of greenhouse complexes," said Honorary Chairman of JGC Group Yoshihira Sigahisa .
At the end of 2017, during the "Days of the Far East" in Moscow, the construction of the second stage was officially completed, to which 480 million were invested.
"With the introduction of the second phase, we will increase the volume of vegetable deliveries to 1.3 thousand tons per year," Tomoyuki Igarashi said during a teleconference with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev .
"There is no doubt that we are very interested in developing the production of a wide range of products - both industrial and agricultural - in the Far East, which is why I, and my colleagues, are really engaged in this on a permanent basis," the prime minister replied.
Thanks to the introduction of the second stage of production, the assortment of hothouse vegetables has significantly expanded. "The townspeople appreciated our radish Donar," said Ekaterina Panova, assistant to the general director of the enterprise , "he has a short, but edible top-up." In turn, the production of eggplants. " In addition to tomatoes and cucumbers, leaf lettuce and rukola are grown here. The experimental batch of sweet pepper of the cultivar Tequilo has already been sold - it has an unusual rich violet color and a bright aroma.
The Russian-Japanese resident of the TOP in the near future plans to expand the range of Japanese strawberries, and is also working on the possibility of growing a number of crops in the open ground, such as potatoes, carrots and onions. This will allow not to stop production even in the summer months, when the greenhouses are closed for sterilization.
The agro-company intends to proceed with the construction of the third stage of greenhouses and increase their area to 10.3 hectares. The total investment is estimated at 2.3 billion rubles. There will be 150 new jobs.
"Today, many Japanese companies, knowing about this successful experience, are constantly consulting with us about how quickly to get started in Russia." In our view, the secret of success is the constant attention of federal and regional authorities to our project, "said the senior executive director of the corporation JGC Masanori Suzuki.
ТОР "Хабаровск", created on June 25, 2015, consists of three sites: "Airport", "Rakitnoe" and "Avangard".
According to calculations by the Agency for Investment and Development of the Khabarovsk Territory, by the year 2025, 9,706 jobs will be created by the residents of the territory. The volume of taxes paid to the budgets of all levels will reach 10.475 billion rubles (6% of total taxes to the regional budget). The attracted investments will amount to 5.05 rubles for each ruble invested by the state, or 60 million rubles per 1 ha of a resident land plot.
The material was prepared by the Far Eastern United Editorial Board (DOR).
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