Penza, 1 December 2011. PenzaNews. The solemn ceremony of the beginning of construction of the complex for growing mushrooms, took place in the village Suhanovka of Kuznetsky area of the Penza region on Thursday, December, 1.

Governor Vasily Bochkarev, First Deputy Prime Minister — Commissioner for the protection of investors and entrepreneurs of the region Vladimir Volkov, the head of the administration of the Kuznetsky area Valery Kostin, the director of the investment company “Stroypotentsial” (Samara) Anatoly Matveev, the director of the investment company “Rosselhozrazvitie” (Penza) Alexander Grigoryants and manager of the Penza branch of the Volga bank Sberbank of Russia, Yuri Egorov took part in the ceremony.

As the press service of the regional government reported to the news agency PenzaNews, the investment project presupposes the construction of the largest in the Eastern Europe plant for mushrooms production in the Kuznetsky area.

The press-service said: “The planned capacity of the plant is 6 tons of fresh mushrooms per year with the capacity of 1.8 thousand tons of compost per month. The volume of investments in the project is 900 million rubles, 270 million rubles of which are funds of investors, 630 million rubles are the loans of Sberbank of Russia”.

Investors selected and formalized ground area, organized topographic and geological survey, prepared a project, financial and credit documentation, signed an agreement with a Netherlands company which will supply the equipment «Dalsem Horticultural Projects BV», received a building permit.

The press-service said: “The process of matching the list of preferences of the budget of the Penza region, provided for the project, is almost comleted. The list includes 100% compensation of a bank rate on a loan as well as providing benefits for income tax and property tax”.