EkoNiva commissioned a livestock breeding complex in Tatarstan for 4.5 billion rubles.

The construction of the livestock complex has been underway since 2019. Its infrastructure includes four cowsheds, calf barns, areas for keeping young animals, a feed warehouse, a sanitary inspection station, and a milking parlor with a “Carousel” installation. The project is designed to support 3,550 cows and 5,100 heads of young dairy animals. The production capacity of the complex is 120 tons of MILK per day. The company created 175 jobs.

The livestock of the Naratly livestock complex consists of high-yielding Holstein cows. The enterprise has already received the status of a breeding reproducer and is engaged in breeding breeding animals to meet the needs of agricultural producers. Breeding heifers from the Naratly complex will be both moved to other farms of the EkoNiva Group of Companies and sold to third-party enterprises, including through the mechanism of electronic auctions.

The Naratly livestock complex is also part of the EkoNiva excursion project. This is the group's first dairy farm in the Volga region, open to visitors. EkoNiva guides have developed a special sightseeing route around the complex, including the main stages of milk production. Registration for excursions will be open to everyone in the near future.

“The Naratly livestock complex will make a valuable contribution to the development of the dairy industry in RUSSIA and filling the market with fresh natural products. This fully meets the goal of increasing agricultural production, which was set by the president. In addition, modern high-tech equipment will improve the skills of workers and develop the human resources potential of the domestic agricultural sector,” commented Denis Konstantinov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Rosselkhozbank.

“We are pleased to work in Tatarstan, the leader in raw milk production, and want to contribute to the record-breaking performance of the republic. In addition, the commissioning of the Naratly complex is of great importance for the socio-economic development of the Bugulma region itself. Along with the projects of leading players in the domestic agricultural sector, it will become part of a full-fledged agricultural cluster being formed here. This will provide its participants with a maximum synergistic effect, and people with comfortable conditions for working and living in the countryside,” says Stefan Duerr, President of the EkoNiva Group of Companies.

EkoNiva is represented in the Republic of Tatarstan by the production enterprise Severnaya Niva Tatarstan and has been operating here since 2018. The company specializes in the production of raw milk and crop production. Under his management there are 35,000 hectares of agricultural land in the Bugulminsky district, of which 26,000 hectares are arable land. In total, the company employs about 560 employees.

The EkoNiva Group of Companies is a vertically integrated holding company, the largest producer of raw milk in Russia and Europe. Founded in 1994 by entrepreneur Stefan Duerr. It manages assets in 13 Russian regions: Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Ryazan, Samara and Tyumen regions, as well as in the Altai Territory, Bashkiria and Tatarstan. 

The main dairy division of the group unites 40 modern livestock complexes. The average number of the company's livestock in 2023 exceeded 235,300 heads of cattle , of which more than 112,500 are forage cows. Last year, its enterprises produced about 1.26 million tons of raw milk. 

Since 2013, EkoNiva has also been developing its milk processing business. It manages four operating processing plants in the Voronezh, Kaluga and Novosibirsk regions, which produce a wide range of natural dairy products under the brand of the same name. 

In addition, the enterprises of the EkoNiva Group of Companies are engaged in pedigree and beef cattle breeding, seed production, crop production and organic agriculture. The holding is one of the five largest owners of agricultural land with 632,200 hectares. 

In 2022, sales revenue of the EkoNiva Group increased by 31% to 65.9 billion rubles, EBITDA by 59%, reaching 26.3 billion rubles, according to audited consolidated financial statements under IFRS.