Russia: Centers for breeding sunflower, durum wheat and oilseeds will appear in the Lipetsk region

Three enterprises for the production of seeds will open in the Lipetsk region at once. The Governor of the Lipetsk Region Igor Artamonov signed agreements with a number of agricultural companies. These agreements will reduce the region's dependence on imported seeds, increase food security and add taxes to the region's budget, the official website of the Government of the Lipetsk region reports. For example, Chaplyginskoe LLC Labaz is investing 1.5 billion rubles in the construction of a breeding and seed-growing center for the production of sunflower seeds. The production capacity will be 5,000 tons per year, and the storage capacity will be 30,000 tons. "Labaz" exists since 2022 and unites several companies of agricultural products processors and its sellers in Voronezh and Moscow. The geography of activity covers the whole of central Russia, as well as the Stavropol Territory, the Republic of Crimea, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and other regions of the Russian Federation and ...