Penza, 11 July 2014. PenzaNews. The assembly of “Rusmolco” milk-and-goods complex in Arshinovka village, Penza region, which is scheduled for August 2014, continues as planned.

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Vladimir Reznichenko, Deputy General Director of “Rusmolco” milk company, told news agency PenzaNews that the penultimate delivery of cattle on the farm was 380 Holstein-Friesian breeding heifers, which were imported from Holland to the dairy complex in Arshinovka village, Nizhnelomovsky area last Wednesday, 9 July.

“The company specialists have personally selected the best heifers on a farm in Holland. As their pedigrees show, these animals will give 9.5 thousand liters of milk per year by the third lactation. The heifers were transported to the Penza region in comfortable two-stored stock trucks in four days. All the animals arrived in good physical condition — clean and well-maintained,” the agency interlocutor said.

He explained that currently the heifers are in the second half of pregnancy.

“The first calves will be born in October-November 2014,” Vladimir Reznichenko noted.

According to official data, the total livestock population of the Arshinovka dairy complex reached 4.350 heads together with the new shipment.

The cattle farm is designed to hold up to 4.600 heads.

Investments in this dairy industrial complex accounted to nearly 2.5 billion rubles. The complex spans over 45 hectares and consists of five cowsheds, two milking units, the modern system of manure removal, storage space for feed and large machinery fleet.

Milk production per cow in the enterprise is expected to reach 10 tons of milk per year by the end of 2014. According to the plans, the Arshinovka complex will produce 120 tons of milk a day after reaching its full production capacity.

“Rusmolco” (“Russian dairy company”) is the leading milk production company and one of the biggest milk companies of this kind in the country.

The production facilities are located in the Penza region. Today “Rusmolco” brings together nine farms specialized in dairy farming and crop production. The total area in management is 136 thousand hectares, the number of cattle heads is more than 10 thousand at the end of 2013.

In 2007, “Rusmolco” started its activities in the region by rehabilitating and reconstructing the old cattle farms. Currently, the company gives priority to the construction of new world-level dairy complexes.

Among the company’s assets are three projects in Penza region built “from scratch”: an industrial complex for 3.600 cattle heads in Narovchatsky area, the modern farm for 1.200 heads in Kuznetsky area and the complex for 4.600 heads in Arshinovka, which is constructed in accordance with an agreement signed in 2012 between “Rusmolko” and “Olam” companies.

“Rusmolko” enterprises employ over one thousand people.

The chairman of the Board of Directors of the company is Naum Babaev, and its CEO is Sumanta Kumar De.