The Tolochin Cannery has begun the construction of a potato storage facility with a capacity of 12,000 tons

May 5, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The Republican Unitary Enterprise "Tolochin Cannery" has begun the construction of a potato storage facility, the enterprise informed a BELTA correspondent. The facility, costing about Br16 billion, is designed to store 12 thousand tons of potatoes in bulk. Its commissioning will allow the enterprise to fully ensure the preservation of the potato harvest. The facility is scheduled to be put into operation in the second half of 2011. In addition, the Tolochin Cannery has currently announced a tender for the design of the modernization of the potato starch processing workshop and the construction of a juice bottling workshop. The implementation of the projects is planned to begin in 2011. In January-March, the enterprise produced products worth Br3.6 billion. The profitability of sales was 6.4%. Starch worth $84 thousand was supplied to Russia, or 135.5% compared to the same period last year. Tolochin Cannery is a budget-forming enterprise of the district. It specializes in the production of fruit and grape wines, potato starch, and pasta. The total number of employees is 450 people. The enterprise's raw material base includes about 4 thousand hectares of agricultural land, where potatoes, rapeseed, grain crops, fruit and berry trees and bushes are grown. -0-