The Leningrad region is implementing a large-scale mushroom production project with environmental concerns. 10,000 tons of mushrooms per year will be produced by the largest mushroom cultivation complex in the North-West of the region. The greenhouses of the agricultural company Vyborzhets occupied an area of 4 hectares, investment in the project amounted to RUR 5.6 billion ($ 87.88 million).
Governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko:
"We compensated companies 10% of the amount of capital investments from the budget of the Leningrad region, allocated land in the Luga district for growing wheat and compost. We took this step, because we see in the project benefits for both the economy and the ecology of the Leningrad region. Unused lands are involved in agricultural circulation, poultry-friendly manure, which is now used as compost bedding for mushrooms, is being utilized, new jobs are being created in Vsevolozhsk and Luga regions. Having invested budget money, we will replenish it many times through taxes."
Already at the end of 2019, the production of mushrooms in the Leningrad region will increase by 53%: up to 2,300 tons. According to the forecast, by the end of the year Vyborzhets will grow about 500 tons of mushrooms, besides it mushrooms are grown by PZ Prinevskoye JSC and Yuzhny Gryb JSC.
Source: agroxxi.ru.
