Tolochnsky Cannery built a potato storage facility for 12 thousand tons

August 12, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. RUP "Tolochinsky Cannery" has completed the construction of a new potato storage facility, the enterprise's director Anatoly Anyukhovsky told a BELTA correspondent.

The facility is designed to store 12 thousand tons of potatoes in bulk. Its commissioning, scheduled for late August - early September, will allow the enterprise to fully ensure the preservation of the potato harvest. The cost of the project, implemented during 2010-2011, amounted to about Br30 billion at current prices. With the launch of the new potato storage facility, the total potato storage capacity of the plant will be 14 thousand tons.

In the first half of the year, the enterprise produced products worth Br12.3 billion, or 116.4% compared to the same period last year. Sales profitability was 13.6%, and the energy saving indicator was minus 10%. Starch and fermented alcohol juice worth $451 thousand were supplied to Russia, which is almost three times higher than the figure for January-June 2010.

Tolochinsky Cannery is a budget-forming enterprise in the district. It specializes in the production of fruit and grape wines, potato starch, pasta products, and crop cultivation. The total number of employees is about 450 people. The enterprise's own raw material base includes over 4.5 thousand hectares of land.-0-