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Since the end of 2019, Rusagro Group has launched a project to increase the capacity of a meat factory in the Tambov Region.

In the fourth quarter of 2019, the company has already invested 1.4 billion rubles in the project. The total investment will amount to 2 billion rubles, Kommersant writes with reference to the company's annual report.

According to Rusagro, slaughter productivity should increase by a third. Earlier, the company talked about increasing the capacity of the slaughter of Tambov Bacon LLC from 4.5 to 7.2 thousand heads per day, and the deboning line from 3.5 to 4.75 thousand heads per day. At the same time, new pig farms of the group are expanding their capacity in the region, in the construction of which 12 billion rubles were invested.